pléiades
\ple.jad\
The verdict
“pléiades” is uncommon French (frequency #61,041 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,041
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pléiade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pleiades · pléiades · French
pléiades · rank #61,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,041
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleurera
Nearest frequency peer: pleurera (-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 « pléiades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- platitude
platitude
38,963 corpus weight
- pleur
pleur
38,962 corpus weight
- pleurera
pleurera
38,961 corpus weight
- pléiades
pléiades
38,960 corpus weight
- polos
polos
38,959 corpus weight
- polynômes
polynômes
38,958 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pléiades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pléiades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ple.jad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pléiades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pléiades is uncommon French at frequency #61,041 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ple.jad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pléiade.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pléiades in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pléiades, spelled P-L-É-I-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pléiade.
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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