pelleteuse
\pɛl.tøz\
The verdict
“pelleteuse” is uncommon French (frequency #58,150 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,150
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Engin de terrassement constitué d’une pelle mécanique hydraulique orientable à 360 degrés et d'un groupe motorisé sur chenille ou sur roue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pelleteuse · pelleteuse · French
pelleteuse · rank #58,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,150
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH percutante
Nearest frequency peer: percutante (+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 « pelleteuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peanut
peanut
41,854 corpus weight
- pebble
pebble
41,853 corpus weight
- pelleteuse
pelleteuse
41,851 corpus weight
- percutante
percutante
41,850 corpus weight
- perforée
perforée
41,849 corpus weight
- perpétuels
perpétuels
41,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pelleteuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelleteuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛl.tøz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pelleteuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pelleteuse is uncommon French at frequency #58,150 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛl.tøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Engin de terrassement constitué d’une pelle mécanique hydraulique orientable à 360 degrés et d'un groupe motorisé sur chenille ou sur roue.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pelleteuse in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pelleteuse, spelled P-E-L-L-E-T-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Engin de terrassement constitué d’une pelle mécanique hydraulique orientable à 360 degrés et d'un groupe motorisé sur chenille ou sur roue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pelleteuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au cœur de ce combat, des hommes, évidemment invisibles. Sans eux, comment le bulldozer, la pelleteuse, la goudronneuse remporteraient cette infernale bataille?
Francesca, petite princesse, j’avais toujours cru qu’avec une rose et un renard on pouvait écrire de belles histoires. Mais la rose est au pouvoir et le petit prince dessine des pelleteuses. Saint Exupéry est un aéroport près de Lyon d’où partent des oiseaux mécaniques au gésier gavé de Tsiganes refoulés de France.
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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