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pelote

French, noun

pelote is spelled P-E-L-O-T-E (6 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,948th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pelote is a French feminine noun meaning “ball (e.g. of string, wire)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of peloter. With an accent, peloté is a different word: “past participle of peloter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de boule que l’on forme avec des fils, de la laine, de la soie, etc., en les roulant sur eux-mêmes”.

What does pelote mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineball (e.g. of string, wire)

  2. 2

    femininepelota (sport)

  3. 3

    femininedroppings (animal waste)

  4. 4

    feminineball (in the game of jeu de paume)

    (archaic)

  5. 5

    Quebecfeminineslangpussy (female genitalia)

  6. 6

    femininea ball; a football

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as peloté
  1. 1

    past participle of peloter

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Sorte de boule que l’on forme avec des fils, de la laine, de la soie, etc., en les roulant sur eux-mêmes. 2. Petit coussinet servant à y ficher des épingles et des aiguilles. 3. Amas de débris alimentaires partiellement digérés que rejettent certains animaux, les rapaces en particulier. 4. Marque blanche qui se trouve sur le front de quelques chevaux et que l’on nomme autrement « étoile ».

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of pelote

  • pelotes plural
  • pelotée feminine
  • pelotés masculine plural
  • pelotées feminine plural
  • plotte

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to pelote

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pelote in French?

pelote appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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