pelletée
\pɛl.te\
The verdict
“pelletée” is uncommon French (frequency #71,781 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,781
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qu’on prend d’un coup de pelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pelletee · pelletée · French
pelletée · rank #71,781 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,781
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH penchez
Nearest frequency peer: penchez (+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 “pelletée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- paver
paver
28,225 corpus weight
- pelletée
pelletée
28,220 corpus weight
- penchez
penchez
28,219 corpus weight
- pentateuque
pentateuque
28,218 corpus weight
- personnalis…
personnalisables
28,216 corpus weight
- persécutées
persécutées
28,215 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pelletée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelletée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛl.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “pelletée” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
pelletée is uncommon French at frequency #71,781 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛl.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ce qu’on prend d’un coup de pelle.".
pelletée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pelletée, spelled P-E-L-L-E-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Ce qu’on prend d’un coup de pelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pelletée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme il ouvrait la portière, une énorme pelletée de boue tomba sur sa figure, et de là sur sa cravate. Comme il parlait à M. Coffe dans ce moment, la boue entra même dans sa bouche.
Ma mère et moi nous étions au salon, et je regardais par la fenêtre les ouvriers de la voirie qui jetaient des pelletées de sable sur le verglas, lorsque ma tante parut.
This word in other languages
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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