pléonasme
French, noun/ple.ɔ.nasm/
pléonasme is spelled P-L-É-O-N-A-S-M-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pléonasme is a French masculine noun meaning “pleonasm, redundancy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Figure de style par laquelle on redouble une expression pour la renforcer”.
What does pléonasme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepleonasm, redundancy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Figure de style par laquelle on redouble une expression pour la renforcer. 2. Redondance de paroles considérée comme vicieuse.
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 pléonasme
- pléonasmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pléonasme?
- /ple.ɔ.nasm/
- /ple.ɔ.nazm/
- \ple.ɔ.nasm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pléonasme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pléonasme in French?
pléonasme appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).