palmiste
\pal.mist\
The verdict
“palmiste” is uncommon French (frequency #97,250 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,250
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de certaines espèces de palmiers dont la cime fournit du chou-palmiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palmiste · palmiste · French
palmiste · rank #97,250 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,250
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH palice
Nearest frequency peer: palice (-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 « palmiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paki
paki
2,753 corpus weight
- palice
palice
2,752 corpus weight
- palmiste
palmiste
2,751 corpus weight
- pampas
pampas
2,750 corpus weight
- Pamuk
Pamuk
2,749 corpus weight
- Panaméens
Panaméens
2,748 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palmiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palmiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pal.mist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palmiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palmiste is uncommon French at frequency #97,250 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pal.mist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
palmiste has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is palmiste, spelled P-A-L-M-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de certaines espèces de palmiers dont la cime fournit du chou-palmiste.
- 2Synonyme de palmier à huile.
- 3Synonyme de noix de palme, graine du fruit du palmier à huile dont on tire l'huile de palmiste.
- 4Ancien nom vernaculaire (jusqu'au XIXᵉ siècle) du katje à couronne noire (Phaenicophilus palmarum), un passereau endémique de l'île d'Hispaniola rappelant superficiellement les merles.
- 5Rat palmiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palmiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… des bosquets de palmistes élèvent ça et là leurs colonnes nues et longues de plus de cent pieds, surmontés à leurs sommets d'un bouquet de palmes, et paraissent au-dessus des arbres comme une forêt plantée sur une autre forêt.
Nous cherchons ce qui était encore là hier, les beaux arbres, les plantations de palmistes, les goyaviers, les manguiers, les massifs de rhododendrons, de bougainvillées, d'hibiscus.
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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