pelo
\pe.lo\
The verdict
“pelo” is uncommon French (frequency #76,883 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,883
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gars ; mec (variante orthographique de pélo, même prononciation).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pelo · pelo · French
pelo · rank #76,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,883
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peignoirs
Nearest frequency peer: peignoirs (-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 « pelo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pedo
pedo
23,120 corpus weight
- peignoirs
peignoirs
23,119 corpus weight
- pelo
pelo
23,118 corpus weight
- pelvis
pelvis
23,117 corpus weight
- penda
penda
23,115 corpus weight
- perdions
perdions
23,114 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pelo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.lo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pelo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pelo is uncommon French at frequency #76,883 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gars ; mec (variante orthographique de pélo, même prononciation).".
pelo has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pelo, spelled P-E-L-O.
Definition
- 1Gars ; mec (variante orthographique de pélo, même prononciation).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pelo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On se méfie toujours de ce genre de garanties de droit : j’en ai connu des pelos (gars) qu’on a renvoyés chez eux malgré leurs enfants.
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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