pelées
\pə.le\
The verdict
“pelées” is uncommon French (frequency #85,119 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,119
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de pelé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pelees · pelées · French
pelées · rank #85,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,119
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pele
Nearest frequency peer: pele (-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 « pelées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peinturer
peinturer
14,884 corpus weight
- pele
pele
14,883 corpus weight
- pelées
pelées
14,882 corpus weight
- pendaient
pendaient
14,881 corpus weight
- Pentagon
Pentagon
14,880 corpus weight
- perceptive
perceptive
14,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pelées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pə.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pelées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pelées is uncommon French at frequency #85,119 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pə.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de pelé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pelées, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pelées, spelled P-E-L-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de pelé.
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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