pelote
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,173
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pelote is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de boule que l’on forme avec du fil, de la laine, de la soie, etc., en les roulant sur eux-mêmes. Pronounced \pə.lɔt\. Often confused with pote and pète.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.lɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pelote is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pə.lɔt\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,173 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for pelote, with forms such as "eplote", "pellote", and "peloet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pote", "pète", "plot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pelote, spelled P-E-L-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de boule que l’on forme avec du fil, de la laine, de la soie, etc., en les roulant sur eux-mêmes.
- 2Petit coussinet servant à y ficher des épingles et des aiguilles.
- 3Amas de débris alimentaires partiellement digérés que rejettent certains animaux, les rapaces en particulier.
- 4Marque blanche qui se trouve sur le front de quelques chevaux et que l’on nomme autrement « étoile ».
- 5Balle du jeu de paume.
- 6Balle des jeux de pelote basque , sorte de jeu de paume pratiqué au Pays basque, qui se joue avec une balle qu’on lance contre un fronton. → voir pelote basque
- 7Punition infligée aux soldats fautifs.
- 8Plat composé de pâte de pommes de terre farcies avec de la viande, souvent du lard ou du porc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eplote,pellote,peloet,pelotte,peltoe,peolte,pleote,ppelote
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "pelote"
Frequency rank: #31,173 in French
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