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7-letter words (1 found)

PELOTON,

6-letter words (3 found)

LEPTON,LOOTEN,POOTLE,

5-letter words (5 found)

LENTO,NETOP,OLENT,PELON,PLEON,

4-letter words (42 found)

ENOL,LENO,LENT,LEPT,LONE,LOON,LOOP,LOOT,LOPE,LOTE,LOTO,NOEL,NOLE,NOLO,NOOP,NOPE,NOTE,OLEO,OLPE,ONTO,OONT,OPEN,PELT,PENT,PEON,PLOT,POET,POLE,POLO,POLT,PONE,PONT,POOL,POON,POOT,POTE,TOLE,TONE,TOOL,TOON,TOPE,TOPO,

3-letter words (31 found)

ELT,EON,LEP,LET,LOO,LOP,LOT,NEP,NET,NOO,NOT,OLE,ONE,ONO,OON,OOP,OOT,OPE,OPT,PEL,PEN,PET,POL,POO,POT,TEL,TEN,TOE,TON,TOO,TOP,

2-letter words (14 found)

EL,EN,ET,LO,NE,NO,OE,ON,OO,OP,PE,PO,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 97 words from peloton according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of peloton

peloton

Etymology

Borrowed from French peloton (“small ball (of thread, etc.), pellet; (cycling) group of riders formed during a cycling road race; (military) small group of soldiers, platoon”), from pelote (“small ball (of thread, etc.)”) (ultimately from Latin pila (“ball; ball game; globe, sphere”) (probably referring to a ball of hair), from pilus (“strand of hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *pil- (“strand of hair”)) + -on (augmentative suffix). Doublet of platoon.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɛlətɒn/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpɛləˈtɑn/
  • Rhymes: (GA pronunciation) -ɒn
  • Hyphenation: pe‧lot‧on

Noun

peloton (plural pelotons)

  1. (cycle racing) A group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders; the pack.
  2. (military, chiefly historical) Synonym of platoon (“a small group of soldiers”) or synonym of section (cognate with the former; not invariably synonymous with it, depending on century of use)

Usage notes

Not to be confused with peleton (“small pellet or ball”).

Translations

References

Further reading

  • peloton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • peloton (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • glossary of cycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • ploonet

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛloton]

Noun

peloton m inan

  1. peloton

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French peloton, derived in turn from pelote +‎ -on.

Pronunciation

Noun

peloton n (plural pelotons, diminutive pelotonnetje n)

  1. platoon
  2. (cycling) peloton

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Caribbean Hindustani: paltan

Anagrams

  • ontlope

Esperanto

Noun

peloton

  1. accusative singular future nominal passive participle of peli

Finnish

Etymology

pelko +‎ -ton

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpeloton/, [ˈpe̞lo̞t̪o̞n]
  • Rhymes: -eloton
  • Syllabification(key): pe‧lo‧ton

Adjective

peloton (comparative pelottomampi, superlative pelottomin)

  1. fearless, daring

Declension

Derived terms

  • pelottomasti
  • pelottomuus

Related terms

  • pelko
  • pelokas
  • pelätä

Further reading

  • “peloton”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • peltoon

French

Etymology

From pelote +‎ -on.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pə.lɔ.tɔ̃/

Noun

peloton m (plural pelotons)

  1. small ball (of thread etc.)
  2. (military) platoon
  3. pack, bunch (of cyclists etc.)

Derived terms

  • peloton d’exécution
  • pelotonner, pelotonnement
  • pelotonneur

Descendants

  • → English: peloton
  • → German: Peloton
  • → Portuguese: pelotão
  • → Spanish: pelotón

Further reading

  • “peloton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org