pétioles
\pe.sjɔl\
The verdict
“pétioles” is uncommon French (frequency #87,061 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,061
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pétiole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petioles · pétioles · French
pétioles · rank #87,061 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,061
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH périurbains
Nearest frequency peer: périurbains (-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 « pétioles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pépiniérist…
pépiniéristes
12,943 corpus weight
- périnatale
périnatale
12,942 corpus weight
- périurbains
périurbains
12,941 corpus weight
- pétioles
pétioles
12,940 corpus weight
- pétrissage
pétrissage
12,939 corpus weight
- Pétrograd
Pétrograd
12,938 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétioles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétioles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.sjɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétioles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétioles is uncommon French at frequency #87,061 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.sjɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pétiole.".
pétioles has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pétioles, spelled P-É-T-I-O-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pétiole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pétioles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont les pétioles que l’on déguste.
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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