plébéien
\ple.be.jɛ̃\
The verdict
“plébéien” is uncommon French (frequency #76,904 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,904
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Citoyen appartenant au populus, mais ne jouissant pas des droits réservés aux patriciens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plebeien · plébéien · French
plébéien · rank #76,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,904
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pluvial
Nearest frequency peer: pluvial (-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 « plébéien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plagiats
plagiats
23,101 corpus weight
- plisson
plisson
23,099 corpus weight
- pluvial
pluvial
23,098 corpus weight
- plébéien
plébéien
23,097 corpus weight
- Poirson
Poirson
23,095 corpus weight
- portatives
portatives
23,093 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plébéien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plébéien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ple.be.jɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plébéien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plébéien is uncommon French at frequency #76,904 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ple.be.jɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for plébéien, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is plébéien, spelled P-L-É-B-É-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Citoyen appartenant au populus, mais ne jouissant pas des droits réservés aux patriciens.
- 2(sens moderne) Homme du peuple ; citoyen qui n’appartient pas à la classe dirigeante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plébéien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jurisconsulte dit qu’on ne peut être propriétaire que par le droit des Quirites ; or le plébéien n’est pas compté d’abord parmi les Quirites […] Ces plébéiens, qui n’ont pas la religion, n’ont pas ce qui fait que l’homme peut mettre son empreinte sur une part de terre et la faire sienne.
Et si les plébéiens se plaignent d’être par ces expédients illégalement écartés du consulat, où donc était le pouvoir en mesure de leur faire justice ?
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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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