pelle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,631
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Outil constitué d’une plaque mince, généralement en métal, avec ou sans rebords et souvent courbe et dont l’extrémité peut être plus ou moins arrondie, muni d’un manche en bois plus ou moins long. ... Pronounced \pɛl\. Often confused with père and pile.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pelle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,631 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pelle, with forms such as "eplle", "pele", and "pelel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "père", "pile", "pull", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 pelle, spelled P-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Outil constitué d’une plaque mince, généralement en métal, avec ou sans rebords et souvent courbe et dont l’extrémité peut être plus ou moins arrondie, muni d’un manche en bois plus ou moins long. Cet outil est utilisé pour déplacer de la terre, du sable, des gravillons, de la neige, du charbon… ou pour remuer des matières pâteuses comme la boue, le mortier….
- 2Désigne le contenu de la pelle.
- 3Ustensile de ménage utilisé pour collecter et transporter la poussière, les débris réunis à l’aide d’un balai.
- 4Désigne une pelle mécanique de façon abrégée.
- 5Petite cuillère creuse destinée à saupoudrer du sel ou à verser de la moutarde.
- 6Baiser à pleine bouche → voir rouler une pelle.
- 7Chute violente.
- 8(Antilles) Incisive très large.
- 9Extrémité large et plate de l'aviron.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eplle,pele,pelel,plele,ppelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pelle
Misspelling Variants of "pelle"
Frequency rank: #11,631 in French
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