peloter
\plɔ.te\
The verdict
“peloter” is uncommon French (frequency #86,006 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,006
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Jouer à la paume, sans que ce soit une partie réglée ; ne faire que se jeter et se renvoyer la balle au jeu de paume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peloter · peloter · French
peloter · rank #86,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,006
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH pella
Nearest frequency peer: pella (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “peloter”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- patries
patries
13,998 corpus weight
- patrimonio
patrimonio
13,997 corpus weight
- pella
pella
13,996 corpus weight
- peloter
peloter
13,995 corpus weight
- penchons
penchons
13,994 corpus weight
- perfore
perfore
13,992 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “peloter” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peloter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peloter” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
peloter is uncommon French at frequency #86,006 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \plɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for peloter, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is peloter, spelled P-E-L-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Jouer à la paume, sans que ce soit une partie réglée ; ne faire que se jeter et se renvoyer la balle au jeu de paume.
- 2Faire quelque chose de peu de conséquence, en attendant mieux.
- 3Mettre en pelote du fil, de la laine. → voir pelotonner
- 4Caresser, palper sensuellement ou par jeu érotique.
- 5Flatter ou flagorner une personne pour en obtenir des faveurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peloter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils ne jouent pas partie, ils ne font que peloter.
Au milieu de cette large poutre mignardement sculptée se trouvait un antique tableau représentant un chat qui pelotait.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "peloter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.