palomino
\pa.lo.mi.no\
The verdict
“palomino” is uncommon French (frequency #75,977 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,977
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cépage espagnol dont le nom officiel est palomino fino, et connu en France sous le nom de listan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palomino · palomino · French
palomino · rank #75,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,977
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pallium
Nearest frequency peer: pallium (-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 « palomino »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pactiser
pactiser
24,027 corpus weight
- pallium
pallium
24,025 corpus weight
- palomino
palomino
24,024 corpus weight
- paléozoïque
paléozoïque
24,023 corpus weight
- paperasses
paperasses
24,022 corpus weight
- papetier
papetier
24,021 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palomino » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palomino |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.lo.mi.no\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palomino » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palomino is uncommon French at frequency #75,977 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.lo.mi.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
palomino doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is palomino, spelled P-A-L-O-M-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1Cépage espagnol dont le nom officiel est palomino fino, et connu en France sous le nom de listan.
- 2Couleur de robe du cheval, caractérisée par un pelage jaune proche du doré et des crins presque blancs.
- 3Cheval ayant cette robe.
Synonyms
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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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