palourdes
\pa.luʁd\
The verdict
“palourdes” is uncommon French (frequency #61,009 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,009
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de palourde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palourdes · palourdes · French
palourdes · rank #61,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,009
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paladins
Nearest frequency peer: paladins (-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 « palourdes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- outlander
outlander
38,995 corpus weight
- oyster
oyster
38,994 corpus weight
- paladins
paladins
38,993 corpus weight
- palourdes
palourdes
38,992 corpus weight
- palpation
palpation
38,991 corpus weight
- paléontolog…
paléontologue
38,990 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palourdes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palourdes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.luʁd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palourdes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palourdes is uncommon French at frequency #61,009 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.luʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de palourde.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for palourdes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is palourdes, spelled P-A-L-O-U-R-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de palourde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how palourdes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La grapette à main est préconisée pour les coques, les palourdes et les praires — le couteau étant toléré pour ces deux dernières.
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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