pétale
\pe.tal\
The verdict
“pétale” is uncommon French (frequency #50,455 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,455
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organe floral de la corolle, généralement coloré, situé à l’intérieur du calice et à l’extérieur des organes reproducteurs (étamines et pistil).
Corpus desk
Index FR-petale · pétale · French
pétale · rank #50,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,455
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH péroné
Nearest frequency peer: péroné (-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 « pétale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- punchlines
punchlines
49,549 corpus weight
- pénalisant
pénalisant
49,548 corpus weight
- péroné
péroné
49,547 corpus weight
- pétale
pétale
49,546 corpus weight
- pétée
pétée
49,545 corpus weight
- raffermir
raffermir
49,543 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.tal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétale is uncommon French at frequency #50,455 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organe floral de la corolle, généralement coloré, situé à l’intérieur du calice et à l’extérieur des organes reproducteurs (étamines et pistil).".
pétale has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pétale, spelled P-É-T-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Organe floral de la corolle, généralement coloré, situé à l’intérieur du calice et à l’extérieur des organes reproducteurs (étamines et pistil).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pétale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu baisses la tête, fit M. Firmin en faisant mine d’arracher un quatrième pétale.
La fleur est actinomorphe, unisexuée avec un calice de 5 sépales et une corolle de 5 pétales libres.
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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