eau de pluie
\o də plɥi\
The verdict
“eau de pluie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eau telle qu’elle tombe d’un nuage en se condensant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eau-de-pluie · eau de pluie · French
eau de pluie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eau de pluie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o də plɥi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « eau de pluie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
eau de pluie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \o də plɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Eau telle qu’elle tombe d’un nuage en se condensant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for eau de pluie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is eau de pluie, spelled E-A-U- -D-E- -P-L-U-I-E.
Definition
- 1Eau telle qu’elle tombe d’un nuage en se condensant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eau de pluie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’eau de pluie contient en dissolution toutes les substances qui existent dans l’air, telles que l’oxygène, l’azote, l’acide carbonique, de petites quantités d’acide azotique, de carbonate d’ammoniaque, ou d’azotate d’ammoniaque.
À Nancy, nous avons créé des jardins d’eau alimentés grâce à la récupération d’eau de pluie et de trop pleins de la Meurthe.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.