épluchures
\e.ply.ʃyʁ\
The verdict
“épluchures” is uncommon French (frequency #80,808 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,808
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de épluchure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epluchures · épluchures · French
épluchures · rank #80,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,808
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étatisation
Nearest frequency peer: étatisation (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « épluchures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Émond
Émond
19,196 corpus weight
- épile
épile
19,195 corpus weight
- épluchures
épluchures
19,193 corpus weight
- étatisation
étatisation
19,192 corpus weight
- étiole
étiole
19,191 corpus weight
- étoupe
étoupe
19,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épluchures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épluchures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ply.ʃyʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épluchures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épluchures is uncommon French at frequency #80,808 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ply.ʃyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de épluchure.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for épluchures, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is épluchures, spelled É-P-L-U-C-H-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de épluchure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how épluchures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au bout de 5 min, déglacez au vinaigre de cidre, puis mouillez votre bouillon en ajoutant un L d’eau (idéalement 1 L de bouillon végétal, réalisé au préalable avec les épluchures des légumes pour avoir un goût plus profond.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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