pelade
French, noun/pə.lad/
pelade is spelled P-E-L-A-D-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 142,934th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pelade is a French feminine noun meaning “alopecia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pathologie qui fait tomber, par endroits, les poils et les cheveux”.
What does pelade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealopecia
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pathologie qui fait tomber, par endroits, les poils et les cheveux. 2. Pathologie qui fait tomber des morceaux d’écorce d’un arbre. 3. Laine provenant d’un animal mort et dépilée par un moyen chimique. 4. Terre laissée en friche.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pelade
- pelades plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pelade?
- /pə.lad/
- \pə.lad\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pelade in French?
pelade appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).