palmettes
\pal.mɛt\
The verdict
“palmettes” is uncommon French (frequency #83,229 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,229
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de palmette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palmettes · palmettes · French
palmettes · rank #83,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,229
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pagani
Nearest frequency peer: pagani (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « palmettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pab
pab
16,775 corpus weight
- pacsé
pacsé
16,774 corpus weight
- pagani
pagani
16,773 corpus weight
- palmettes
palmettes
16,772 corpus weight
- palpitantes
palpitantes
16,771 corpus weight
- panpan
panpan
16,770 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palmettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palmettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pal.mɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palmettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palmettes is uncommon French at frequency #83,229 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pal.mɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de palmette.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for palmettes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is palmettes, spelled P-A-L-M-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de palmette.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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