plebs
/plɛbz/noun
plebs is spelled P-L-E-B-S. The wrong spelling people search most is pleebs: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Plebs is a noun meaning “The plebeian class of Ancient Rome or its equivalent in other ancient societies”.
How many letters and syllables are in plebs?
| Letters | 5: P-L-E-B-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 45,947th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pleebs, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell plebs?
Plebs is spelled P-L-E-B-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for plebs 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 plebs?
Plebs appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th 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 plebs?
- /plɛbz/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does plebs mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The plebeian class of Ancient Rome or its equivalent in other ancient societies.
- 2
The common people, especially (derogatory) the mob.
For 'tis an Easier Thing To make Trees Leape, and Stones selfe-burthens bring (As once Amphion to the walls of Thæbes,)
- 3
plural of pleb
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Plebs in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The common people:
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 plebs come from?
From Latin plēbs (“the plebeian class”), variant of earlier plēbēs. Later also understood as the plural of pleb.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).