pleureuse
\plœ.ʁøz\
The verdict
“pleureuse” is uncommon French (frequency #63,245 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,245
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme ayant pour rôle de simuler le chagrin lors de funérailles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pleureuse · pleureuse · French
pleureuse · rank #63,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,245
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleura
Nearest frequency peer: pleura (-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 « pleureuse »
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 « pleureuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleureuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plœ.ʁøz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pleureuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pleureuse is uncommon French at frequency #63,245 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plœ.ʁøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pleureuse, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pleureuse, spelled P-L-E-U-R-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme ayant pour rôle de simuler le chagrin lors de funérailles.
- 2Celle qui se plaint.
- 3Boucle d’oreille.
- 4Manchette de toile blanche portée jadis sur les manches des habits en signe de deuil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pleureuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au-dessus de celle des chiens, montait une plainte, plus déchirante et si contagieuse que Zéré porta ses deux mains contre son cœur et que la même lamentation s’envola de sa gorge. Précédée par ce cri strident, rythmé, rompu, inépuisable, elle prit sa course pour se joindre aux pleureuses en marche.
Avec son physique d’Orientale, l’éditrice aurait pu être une de ces pleureuses qui étaient encore employées récemment dans certains enterrements du bassin méditerranéen.
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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