pelure
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#75,079
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
pelure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Peau ou enveloppe de certains fruits, de certains légumes, lorsqu’on les a détachées en pelant ces fruits, ces légumes. Pronounced \pə.lyʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.lyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pelure is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pə.lyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #75,079 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pelure in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 pelure, spelled P-E-L-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Peau ou enveloppe de certains fruits, de certains légumes, lorsqu’on les a détachées en pelant ces fruits, ces légumes.
- 2Surface d’un objet, en particulier d’une planète, par opposition aux couches profondes.
- 3Élément qui s’ajoute graduellement à d’autres dans la conception d’une œuvre ou d’une pensée.
- 4Laine provenant d'un animal mort et dépilée par un moyen chimique.
- 5Individu sans intérêt, minable.
- 6Papier très fin autrefois utilisé avec des papiers carbone pour pouvoir avoir plusieurs exemplaires d'un même texte écrit à la main ou à la machine à écrire.
- 7Pardessus.
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Frequency rank: #75,079 in French
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