pléthorique
\ple.tɔ.ʁik\
The verdict
“pléthorique” is uncommon French (frequency #54,163 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,163
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est surabondant en sang et en humeurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plethorique · pléthorique · French
pléthorique · rank #54,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,163
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pluridiscipli…
Nearest frequency peer: pluridisciplinaires (-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 « pléthorique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- planifiés
planifiés
45,841 corpus weight
- pliocène
pliocène
45,840 corpus weight
- pluridiscip…
pluridisciplinaires
45,839 corpus weight
- pléthorique
pléthorique
45,838 corpus weight
- PNR
PNR
45,837 corpus weight
- politisé
politisé
45,836 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pléthorique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pléthorique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ple.tɔ.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pléthorique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pléthorique is uncommon French at frequency #54,163 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ple.tɔ.ʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pléthorique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pléthorique, spelled P-L-É-T-H-O-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est surabondant en sang et en humeurs.
- 2Qui contient de trop nombreux éléments ; surchargé, surabondant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pléthorique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D. Exercice. Il doit être violent, soutenu, suivi de peu de sommeil. C'est le meilleur moyen pour combattre la disposition pléthorique, surtout s'il est associé à une diète sévère.
Le fer, qui dans des conditions normales peut passer inaperçu, produit de même ses effets, qu'on pourrait nommer phlogistiques, d'une façon plus apparente chez un homme pléthorique ; […].
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).