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plew

noun

plew is spelled P-L-E-W: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, plew means “beaver pelt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of plew is plews.

How many letters and syllables are in plew?

Letters4: P-L-E-W
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 93 million words; the 309,272nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is plew?

Plew appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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 plew?

    Plew has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What rhymes with plew?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as plew.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: welp.

    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 plew

    • plews plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does plew mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      CanadaUSbeaver pelt

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Where does plew come from?

    From Canadian French, from French poilu (“hairy”). Doublet of poilu.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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