pelures
\pə.lyʁ\
The verdict
“pelures” is uncommon French (frequency #84,152 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,152
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pelure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pelures · pelures · French
pelures · rank #84,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,152
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peptide
Nearest frequency peer: peptide (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pelures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pawn
pawn
15,853 corpus weight
- peaufiné
peaufiné
15,852 corpus weight
- pelures
pelures
15,849 corpus weight
- peptide
peptide
15,848 corpus weight
- perc
perc
15,847 corpus weight
- performent
performent
15,846 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pelures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.lyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pelures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pelures is uncommon French at frequency #84,152 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pə.lyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pelure.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pelures, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pelures, spelled P-E-L-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pelure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pelures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À ses narines surgissent ici et là, à quoi qu’il soit occupé, des croches de parfums surannés, l’odeur des pelures de reinettes ou des zestes de peaux d’orange que sa grand-mère laissait brûler sur le dessus de la cuisinière pour chasser les miasmes microbiens et les esprits malins ou pour embaumer la pièce, et celle, puissante, corsée, qui excite et dila…
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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