pelleter
\pɛl.te\
The verdict
“pelleter” is uncommon French (frequency #75,993 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,993
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remuer à l’aide d’une pelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pelleter · pelleter · French
pelleter · rank #75,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,993
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peco
Nearest frequency peer: peco (-2 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 « pelleter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pavois
pavois
24,012 corpus weight
- pecho
pecho
24,011 corpus weight
- peco
peco
24,010 corpus weight
- pelleter
pelleter
24,008 corpus weight
- pends
pends
24,006 corpus weight
- percuteur
percuteur
24,005 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pelleter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelleter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛl.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pelleter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pelleter is uncommon French at frequency #75,993 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛl.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
pelleter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pelleter, spelled P-E-L-L-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Remuer à l’aide d’une pelle.
- 2Déplacer la neige à l’aide d’une pelle.
- 3Déplacer un problème, un enjeu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pelleter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les graines, après être restées en tas quelques heures pendant lesquelles on les a pelletées constamment, sont placées dans un alambic […].
Un de mes cousins, qui avait alors vingt ans, alla pelleter des décombres un matin : le soir il était mort, écrasé, le sang lui sortant par les oreilles et par la bouche.
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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