peul
\pøl\
The verdict
“peul” is uncommon French (frequency #50,413 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,413
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au peul, la langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peul · peul · French
peul · rank #50,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,413
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perpétrées
Nearest frequency peer: perpétrées (-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 « peul »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- penguin
penguin
49,591 corpus weight
- percevant
percevant
49,590 corpus weight
- perpétrées
perpétrées
49,589 corpus weight
- peul
peul
49,588 corpus weight
- Philémon
Philémon
49,587 corpus weight
- photon
photon
49,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « peul » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pøl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peul » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peul is uncommon French at frequency #50,413 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pøl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for peul, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 peul, spelled P-E-U-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au peul, la langue.
- 2Relatif aux Peuls, le peuple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les noms spécifiquement peuls sont relativement peu nombreux : Ba, Barry, Diallo, Ka, Sow… Les patronymes se sont par la suite diversifiés au gré du métissage avec d'autres ethnies.
Dominant la plaine immense livrée tour à tour par le rythme des crues aux bœufs et aux nénuphars, aux bergers peuls et aux piroguiers bozos, des collines gréseuses, dans la région de Mopti, occupent l’horizon oriental.
Synonyms
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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