papier pelure

/\pa.pje.pəlyʁ\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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papier pelure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Papier très fin, presque translucide, utilisé en particulier lorsque l’on veut diminuer l’épaisseur ou le poids d’un courrier. Pronounced \pa.pje.pəlyʁ\.

Key facts for papier pelure
PropertyValue
Headwordpapier pelure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.pje.pəlyʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

papier pelure is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for papier pelure is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.pje.pəlyʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Papier très fin, presque translucide, utilisé en particulier lorsque l’on veut diminuer l’épaisseur ou le poids d’un courrier.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for papier pelure in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is papier pelure, spelled P-A-P-I-E-R- -P-E-L-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Papier très fin, presque translucide, utilisé en particulier lorsque l’on veut diminuer l’épaisseur ou le poids d’un courrier.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "papier pelure"?
"papier pelure" is spelled P-A-P-I-E-R- -P-E-L-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.pje.pəlyʁ\.
What does "papier pelure" mean?
As a noun, "papier pelure" means: Papier très fin, presque translucide, utilisé en particulier lorsque l’on veut diminuer l’épaisseur ou le poids d’un courrier.
How do you pronounce "papier pelure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "papier pelure" is \pa.pje.pəlyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "papier pelure" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.