pleura
\plœ.ʁa\
The verdict
“pleura” is uncommon French (frequency #63,244 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,244
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de pleurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pleura · pleura · French
pleura · rank #63,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,244
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleasant
Nearest frequency peer: pleasant (-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 « pleura »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piquées
piquées
36,759 corpus weight
- pleasant
pleasant
36,758 corpus weight
- pleura
pleura
36,757 corpus weight
- pleureuse
pleureuse
36,756 corpus weight
- PLF
PLF
36,755 corpus weight
- plongera
plongera
36,754 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pleura » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plœ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pleura » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pleura is uncommon French at frequency #63,244 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \plœ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de pleurer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pleura in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pleura, spelled P-L-E-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de pleurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pleura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jacques se dégrisa et pleura.
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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