pleurer

/\plœ.ʁe\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,487

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

pleurer is aFrenchverb. It means: Répandre des larmes. Pronounced \plœ.ʁe\. It ranks #3,487 in French word frequency. Often confused with pleurs and pleuve.

Key facts for pleurer
PropertyValue
Headwordpleurer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\plœ.ʁe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,487
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pleurer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pleurer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plœ.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,487 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for pleurer, with forms such as "lpeurer", "pelurer", and "pleruer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "pleurs", "pleuve", "pleurez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pleurer, spelled P-L-E-U-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Répandre des larmes.
  2. 2
    Déplorer les fautes quelqu’un, ses égarements, ses malheurs, sa perte.
  3. 3
    Faire apparaître un écoulement de larmes déterminé par une cause physique.
  4. 4
    Dégoutter de la sève du bois d’un arbre ou d’un arbuste, après qu’il a été fraîchement taillé.
  5. 5
    Faire pitié pour obtenir quelque chose.
  6. 6
    Se dit du cri du goéland, du crocodile.
  7. 7
    Regretter ou déplorer la perte de quelque chose ou quelqu’un ; s’en affliger.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: lpeurer,pelurer,pleruer,pleuerr,pleurerr,pleurre,pleurrer,plleurer,pluerer,ppleurer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pleurer

Misspelling Variants of "pleurer"

lpeurer7pelurer7pleruer7pleuerr7pleurerr8pleurre7pleurrer8plleurer8
Misspelling Variants of "pleurer"

Frequency rank: #3,487 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pleurer"?
"pleurer" is spelled P-L-E-U-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \plœ.ʁe\.
What does "pleurer" mean?
As a verb, "pleurer" means: Répandre des larmes.
What words are commonly confused with "pleurer"?
"pleurer" is commonly confused with "pleurs", "pleuve", "pleurez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pleurer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pleurer" is \plœ.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pleurer" come from?
"pleurer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.