peuplade
\pœ.plad\
The verdict
“peuplade” is uncommon French (frequency #63,993 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,993
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rassemblement d’hommes, fixe ou errant, dans les pays non encore civilisés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peuplade · peuplade · French
peuplade · rank #63,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,993
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Peru
Nearest frequency peer: Peru (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “peuplade”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- percevra
percevra
36,011 corpus weight
- peron
peron
36,010 corpus weight
- Peru
Peru
36,009 corpus weight
- peuplade
peuplade
36,008 corpus weight
- philtre
philtre
36,006 corpus weight
- phrygien
phrygien
36,005 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “peuplade” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peuplade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pœ.plad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “peuplade” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
peuplade is uncommon French at frequency #63,993 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pœ.plad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
peuplade doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is peuplade, spelled P-E-U-P-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Rassemblement d’hommes, fixe ou errant, dans les pays non encore civilisés.
- 2Nous sommes d’abord une peuplade de soi-disant grands poètes ! — (Honoré de Balzac, Modeste Mignon, 1844)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peuplade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des espaces considérables de sa surface sont couverts de marais et sur son territoire vivent plusieurs peuplades plus ou moins sauvages qui ont besoin d’un grand espace pour y trouver leur nourriture.
Personne n’ignore ce que fut cette aventureuse campagne du général Skobeleff contre les peuplades turkomènes, – campagne dont la création du chemin de fer transcaspien assura le succès définitif.
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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