palmette
French, noun\pal.mɛt\
palmette is spelled P-A-L-M-E-T-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written French, the 157,622nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palmette is a French feminine noun meaning “palmette” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ornement en forme de palme, employé en architecture, en peinture ou en broderie”.
What does palmette mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepalmette
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ornement en forme de palme, employé en architecture, en peinture ou en broderie. 2. Arbres fruitiers en espalier, taillés de manière à en étaler les branches symétriquement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of palmette
- palmettes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce palmette?
- \pal.mɛt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is palmette in French?
palmette appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).