pelle de boulanger
\pɛl də bu.lɑ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“pelle de boulanger” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Large pelle, généralement en bois, munie d’un long manche permettant d’enfourner sans risque de se brûler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelle de boulanger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛl də bu.lɑ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pelle de boulanger” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pelle de boulanger is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛl də bu.lɑ̃.ʒe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Large pelle, généralement en bois, munie d’un long manche permettant d’enfourner sans risque de se brûler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pelle de boulanger in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de boulanger, spelled P-E-L-L-E- -D-E- -B-O-U-L-A-N-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Large pelle, généralement en bois, munie d’un long manche permettant d’enfourner sans risque de se brûler.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-E-L-L-E- -D-E- -B-O-U-L-A-N-G-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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