Word.ws English Dictionary

peleton

peleton noun: a small pellet or ball. Also the misspelling of peloton.

Noun

peleton (plural peletons)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A small pellet or ball.
    • […] who continu'd still to pelter him with Heaps and Clouds of those Historical Balls or Librarian Bullets, or Pelotes or Peletons; […]1716, Miles Davies, “Of Medals, and Writings and Writers thereupon.”, in Athenæ Britannicæ: or, A critical history of the Oxford and Cambrige writers and writings, page 93

Also used as

peleton is also the misspelling of peloton.

Forms of peleton

pluralpeletons

Origin of peleton

From the French peloton (“little ball”); compare peloton.

Questions about peleton

What does peleton mean?
Peleton means a small pellet or ball.
What part of speech is peleton?
Peleton is a noun.
What is the plural of peleton?
The plural of peleton is peletons.

Words near peleton in the dictionary

  1. pelerines
  2. pelerins
  3. Pelethim
  4. Pelethite
  5. Pelethites
  6. peleton
  7. peletons
  8. Peleus
  9. Pelew
  10. Pelewan
  11. Pelewans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: peleton (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “peleton.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/peleton. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.