palourde
\pa.luʁd\
The verdict
“palourde” is uncommon French (frequency #90,001 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,001
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coquillage marin, bivalve, comestible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palourde · palourde · French
palourde · rank #90,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,001
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH palmés
Nearest frequency peer: palmés (-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 « palourde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- palmeraies
palmeraies
10,002 corpus weight
- palmés
palmés
10,001 corpus weight
- palourde
palourde
10,000 corpus weight
- pancréatiqu…
pancréatiques
9,998 corpus weight
- Panik
Panik
9,997 corpus weight
- panthéisme
panthéisme
9,996 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palourde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palourde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.luʁd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palourde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palourde is uncommon French at frequency #90,001 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.luʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coquillage marin, bivalve, comestible.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for palourde, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is palourde, spelled P-A-L-O-U-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Coquillage marin, bivalve, comestible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palourde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’autre jour, sur la grève, j’ai rencontré une pêcheuse de palourdes… Elle était noire, sale, puante, semblable à un tas de goémon pourrissant.
Effaçant le bedon, il se faufila entre la Prolétaire et la Sainte-Vierge-du-Mont-Carmel – deux barques, bien sûr – et poursuivit son chemin en zigzags parmi les avirons, les piles de voiles, les rouleaux de cordages, les nasses en fil de fer, les têtes de poissons pourries, les tas de coquilles vides, lambis, burgaux, palourdes, huîtres sauvages.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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