Pluviale

/[pluˈvi̯aːlə]/ noun

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Language

German

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Pluviale is aGermannoun. It means: liturgisches Obergewand katholischer Priester, ein vorne offener ärmelloser Mantel, der bei der durch Beräucherung gekennzeichneten feierlichen Vesper getragen wird und deswegen auch Rauchmantel ge... Pronounced [pluˈvi̯aːlə].

Key facts for Pluviale
PropertyValue
HeadwordPluviale
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pluˈvi̯aːlə]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Pluviale is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Pluviale is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pluˈvi̯aːlə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "liturgisches Obergewand katholischer Priester, ein vorne offener ärmelloser Mantel, der bei der durch Beräucherung gekennzeichneten feierlichen Vesper getragen wird und deswegen auch Rauchmantel ge...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Pluviale in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Pluviale, spelled P-L-U-V-I-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    liturgisches Obergewand katholischer Priester, ein vorne offener ärmelloser Mantel, der bei der durch Beräucherung gekennzeichneten feierlichen Vesper getragen wird und deswegen auch Rauchmantel genannt wird.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Pluviale"?
"Pluviale" is spelled P-L-U-V-I-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [pluˈvi̯aːlə].
What does "Pluviale" mean?
As a noun, "Pluviale" means: liturgisches Obergewand katholischer Priester, ein vorne offener ärmelloser Mantel, der bei der durch Beräucherung gekennzeichneten feierlichen Vesper getragen wird und deswegen auch Rauchmantel ge...
How do you pronounce "Pluviale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Pluviale" is [pluˈvi̯aːlə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Pluviale" come from?
"Pluviale" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.