palu
\pa.ly\
The verdict
“palu” is uncommon French (frequency #68,529 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,529
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paludisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palu · palu · French
palu · rank #68,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,529
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panaméricains
Nearest frequency peer: panaméricains (+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 « palu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ove
ove
31,476 corpus weight
- Paley
Paley
31,474 corpus weight
- palu
palu
31,472 corpus weight
- panaméricai…
panaméricains
31,471 corpus weight
- panza
panza
31,470 corpus weight
- paperasserie
paperasserie
31,469 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ly\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palu is uncommon French at frequency #68,529 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ly\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Paludisme.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for palu, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 palu, spelled P-A-L-U.
Definition
- 1Paludisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how palu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le palu est transmis à l’homme par la piqûre d’un moustique femelle «anophèle», elle-même infectée après avoir piqué un homme impaludé.
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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