Pelham
The verdict
“Pelham” is uncommon French (frequency #66,984 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,984
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pelham · Pelham · French
Pelham · rank #66,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,984
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passéiste
Nearest frequency peer: passéiste (-2 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 « Pelham »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pascaline
pascaline
33,021 corpus weight
- passos
passos
33,020 corpus weight
- passéiste
passéiste
33,019 corpus weight
- Pelham
Pelham
33,017 corpus weight
- perdurera
perdurera
33,015 corpus weight
- perreau
perreau
33,013 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pelham » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pelham |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pelham » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pelham is uncommon French at frequency #66,984 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Pelham doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Pelham, spelled P-E-L-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pelham appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thomas Pelham.
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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