pleural
\plœ.ʁal\
The verdict
“pleural” is uncommon French (frequency #91,038 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,038
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à la plèvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pleural · pleural · French
pleural · rank #91,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,038
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plastoc
Nearest frequency peer: plastoc (-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 « pleural »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pichette
pichette
8,968 corpus weight
- plaintif
plaintif
8,966 corpus weight
- Plasmodium
Plasmodium
8,965 corpus weight
- plastoc
plastoc
8,964 corpus weight
- pleural
pleural
8,963 corpus weight
- plénier
plénier
8,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pleural » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleural |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \plœ.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pleural » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pleural is uncommon French at frequency #91,038 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \plœ.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport à la plèvre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pleural in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pleural, spelled P-L-E-U-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à la plèvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pleural appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des anomalies majeures radiologiques (atélectasie, épanchement pleural, pneumonie et/ou adénopathies) sont peu probables en l'absence de tout signe respiratoire (sensibilité de 80 %).
L’homme de 72 ans, retraité depuis 2010, s’est fait diagnostiquer il y a trois ans un mésothéliome pleural, attribué par la CNESST à une exposition professionnelle à la fibre d’amiante dans un des bâtiments de l'établissement d'enseignement.
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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