plébéien
French, noun/ple.be.jɛ̃/
plébéien is spelled P-L-É-B-É-I-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 76,422nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plébéien is a French masculine noun meaning “plebeian, commoner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Citoyen appartenant au populus, mais ne jouissant pas des droits réservés aux patriciens”.
What does plébéien mean in English?
adjective
- 1
plebeian
noun
- 1
masculineplebeian, commoner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Citoyen 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.
adjective: 1. Relatif à la plèbe ; n’appartenant pas à l’aristocratie. 2. Relatif au peuple.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of plébéien
- plébéienne feminine
- plébéiens masculine plural
- plébéiennes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce plébéien?
- /ple.be.jɛ̃/
- \ple.be.jɛ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to plébéien
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plébéien in French?
plébéien appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).