pella
\pɛ.la\
The verdict
“pella” is uncommon French (frequency #86,005 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,005
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe peller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pella · pella · French
pella · rank #86,005 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,005
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH patrimonio
Nearest frequency peer: patrimonio (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pella”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- partido
partido
14,000 corpus weight
- patries
patries
13,998 corpus weight
- patrimonio
patrimonio
13,997 corpus weight
- pella
pella
13,996 corpus weight
- peloter
peloter
13,995 corpus weight
- penchons
penchons
13,994 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pella” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pella |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛ.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pella” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pella is uncommon French at frequency #86,005 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛ.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe peller.".
pella has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pella, spelled P-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe peller.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pella", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.