prunelles
\pʁy.nɛl\
The verdict
“prunelles” is uncommon French (frequency #67,798 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,798
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de prunelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prunelles · prunelles · French
prunelles · rank #67,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,798
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH protoxyde
Nearest frequency peer: protoxyde (-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 « prunelles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- propylène
propylène
32,206 corpus weight
- prosodie
prosodie
32,205 corpus weight
- protoxyde
protoxyde
32,204 corpus weight
- prunelles
prunelles
32,203 corpus weight
- préconçue
préconçue
32,202 corpus weight
- préexistants
préexistants
32,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prunelles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prunelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁy.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prunelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prunelles is uncommon French at frequency #67,798 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁy.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de prunelle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for prunelles in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prunelles, spelled P-R-U-N-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de prunelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prunelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces dignes bêtes formaient une assemblée de sujets plus fidèles que ceux à qui s’adressait alors le roi, tous tachetés de blanc, de brun, de noir, ayant chacun leur physionomie absolument comme les soldats de Napoléon, allumant au moindre bruit leurs prunelles d’un feu qui les faisait ressembler à des diamants ; l’un, venu du Poitou, court de reins, large…
Parmi les troncs des cocotiers, sous la haute et triste colonnade grise, des femmes étaient accroupies par terre, la tête dans leurs mains comme pour les veillées funèbres ; elles semblaient être là depuis un temps indéfini… leurs longs cheveux les couvraient presque entièrement, elles étaient immobiles ; leurs yeux étaient fermés, mais à travers leurs pa…
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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