pleurnicherie
\plœʁ.niʃ.ʁi\
The verdict
“pleurnicherie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de pleurnicher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pleurnicherie · pleurnicherie · French
pleurnicherie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleurnicherie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plœʁ.niʃ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pleurnicherie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pleurnicherie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plœʁ.niʃ.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de pleurnicher.".
pleurnicherie has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pleurnicherie, spelled P-L-E-U-R-N-I-C-H-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Action de pleurnicher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pleurnicherie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les affaires d’honneur étaient en ce temps choses sacrées, que les femmes ne se fussent point avisées d’interrompre ou de gêner par leurs pleurnicheries.
L’homme alors, vaincu, redevient enfant, avec toutes les puérilités, toutes les transes ridicules, toutes les pleurnicheries même de l’enfance.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.