pleurésie
\plø.ʁe.zi\
The verdict
“pleurésie” is uncommon French (frequency #87,948 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,948
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Inflammation de la plèvre, aiguë ou chronique, avec (pleurésie humide, pleurésie exsudative) ou sans épanchement (pleurésie sèche ou pleurite).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pleuresie · pleurésie · French
pleurésie · rank #87,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,948
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH platonisme
Nearest frequency peer: platonisme (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pleurésie”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- plaida
plaida
12,056 corpus weight
- planante
planante
12,055 corpus weight
- platonisme
platonisme
12,054 corpus weight
- pleurésie
pleurésie
12,053 corpus weight
- pliantes
pliantes
12,052 corpus weight
- plébéienne
plébéienne
12,050 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pleurésie” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleurésie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plø.ʁe.zi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pleurésie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pleurésie is uncommon French at frequency #87,948 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plø.ʁe.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflammation de la plèvre, aiguë ou chronique, avec (pleurésie humide, pleurésie exsudative) ou sans épanchement (pleurésie sèche ou pleurite).".
pleurésie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pleurésie, spelled P-L-E-U-R-É-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Inflammation de la plèvre, aiguë ou chronique, avec (pleurésie humide, pleurésie exsudative) ou sans épanchement (pleurésie sèche ou pleurite).
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.