pellet
\pɛ.lɛ\
The verdict
“pellet” is uncommon French (frequency #67,768 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,768
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comprimé à résorption lente placé sous la peau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pellet · pellet · French
pellet · rank #67,768 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,768
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH payerai
Nearest frequency peer: payerai (-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 « pellet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pastoralisme
pastoralisme
32,236 corpus weight
- patronymique
patronymique
32,235 corpus weight
- payerai
payerai
32,234 corpus weight
- pellet
pellet
32,233 corpus weight
- permafrost
permafrost
32,232 corpus weight
- PFC
PFC
32,231 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pellet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pellet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pellet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pellet is uncommon French at frequency #67,768 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pellet, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 pellet, spelled P-E-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Comprimé à résorption lente placé sous la peau.
- 2Petite boulette de minerai de fer.
- 3Combustible sous forme de granulés, de bois ou d’autres matériaux.
- 4Granulé de produits végétaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pellet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces auteurs ont observé, chez des addisoniens traités par des injections quotidiennes de Doca en solution huileuse ou par implantations sous-cutanées de pellets, des manifestations articulaires.
Avec du minerai de fer très finement broyé et mouillé, on confectionne des boulettes, qui sont ensuite cuites au four à la température d’agglomération du métal. Ces boulettes sont appelées pellets, et l’opération la pellétisation.
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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