plaideur
\plɛ.dœʁ\
The verdict
“plaideur” is uncommon French (frequency #93,100 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,100
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui plaide, qui est en procès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaideur · plaideur · French
plaideur · rank #93,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,100
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planchettes
Nearest frequency peer: planchettes (+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 « plaideur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pixie
pixie
6,904 corpus weight
- piétonniers
piétonniers
6,903 corpus weight
- plaideur
plaideur
6,901 corpus weight
- planchettes
planchettes
6,900 corpus weight
- plaquant
plaquant
6,899 corpus weight
- pointilleuse
pointilleuse
6,898 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plaideur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaideur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɛ.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plaideur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plaideur is uncommon French at frequency #93,100 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɛ.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for plaideur in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 plaideur, spelled P-L-A-I-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui plaide, qui est en procès.
- 2Celui qui aime à plaider, à chicaner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaideur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne pourrait-on pas condamner le plaideur déraisonnable et obstiné (outre les dommages-intérêts ordinaires) au paiement d’une somme applicable à l’extirpation de la mendicité, ou autres bonnes œuvres, ….
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); 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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