peuplade
French, noun/pœ.plad/
peuplade is spelled P-E-U-P-L-A-D-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 63,613th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Peuplade is a French feminine noun meaning “tribe, people” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rassemblement d’hommes, fixe ou errant, dans les pays non encore civilisés”.
What does peuplade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetribe, people
- 2
feminineobsoletegroup of settlers/colonists
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rassemblement d’hommes, fixe ou errant, dans les pays non encore civilisés. 2. Nous sommes d’abord une peuplade de soi-disant grands poètes ! – (Honoré de Balzac, Modeste Mignon, 1844)
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of peuplade
- peuplades plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce peuplade?
- /pœ.plad/
- \pœ.plad\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is peuplade in French?
peuplade appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).