pelouse

/\pə.luz\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,878

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

pelouse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Végétation de très faible hauteur. Pronounced \pə.luz\. It ranks #7,878 in French word frequency. Often confused with Pérouse and pelouses.

Key facts for pelouse
PropertyValue
Headwordpelouse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pə.luz\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,878
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pelouse in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pelouse is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pə.luz\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,878 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for pelouse, with forms such as "eplouse", "pellouse", and "pelosue". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Pérouse", "pelouses", "pelote", 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 pelouse, spelled P-E-L-O-U-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Végétation de très faible hauteur.
  2. 2
    Terrain couvert de gazon.
  3. 3
    Terrain de sport couvert de gazon.
  4. 4
    Partie de l’hippodrome, généralement gazonnée, sur laquelle le public est admis.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eplouse,pellouse,pelosue,peloues,pelousse,peluose,peoluse,pleouse,ppelouse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pelouse

Misspelling Variants of "pelouse"

eplouse7pellouse8pelosue7peloues7pelousse8peluose7peoluse7pleouse7
Misspelling Variants of "pelouse"

Frequency rank: #7,878 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pelouse"?
"pelouse" is spelled P-E-L-O-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pə.luz\.
What does "pelouse" mean?
As a noun, "pelouse" means: Végétation de très faible hauteur.
What words are commonly confused with "pelouse"?
"pelouse" is commonly confused with "Pérouse", "pelouses", "pelote". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pelouse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pelouse" is \pə.luz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pelouse" come from?
"pelouse" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.