pleb
/plɛb/noun, adjective
pleb is spelled P-L-E-B. The wrong spelling people search most is pleeb: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Pleb is a noun meaning “A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society”. The plural of pleb is plebs.
How many letters and syllables are in pleb?
| Letters | 4: P-L-E-B |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 65,114th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pleeb, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell pleb?
Pleb is spelled P-L-E-B. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for pleb in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is pleb?
Pleb appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,114th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce pleb?
- /plɛb/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-pleb.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with pleb?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pleb.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: blep.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of pleb
- plebs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pleb mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
- 2
derogatoryA common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
- 3
USderogatoryslangA freshman cadet at a military academy.
adjective
- 1
Of or concerning the lower class of a society.
- 2
derogatoryUndistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pleb in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense common person:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does pleb come from?
A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).