palus
\pa.lys\
The verdict
“palus” is uncommon French (frequency #95,137 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,137
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palus · palus · French
palus · rank #95,137 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,137
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH overtime
Nearest frequency peer: overtime (-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 « palus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ornon
ornon
4,868 corpus weight
- orthogonaux
orthogonaux
4,867 corpus weight
- outarde
outarde
4,866 corpus weight
- overtime
overtime
4,865 corpus weight
- palus
palus
4,864 corpus weight
- pancetta
pancetta
4,863 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.lys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palus is uncommon French at frequency #95,137 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.lys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for palus in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 palus, spelled P-A-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Marais.
- 2Terrain situé sur d'anciens marais ou d'anciennes tourbières.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Palus Méotide, mer d’Azof.
Mes yeux ne découvraient que solfatares, cratères fumants, palus empoisonnés.
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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