pleutre
\pløtʁ\
The verdict
“pleutre” is uncommon French (frequency #79,619 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,619
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne vile et lâche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pleutre · pleutre · French
pleutre · rank #79,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,619
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH placages
Nearest frequency peer: placages (-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 « pleutre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pizzerias
pizzerias
20,384 corpus weight
- placages
placages
20,383 corpus weight
- pleutre
pleutre
20,382 corpus weight
- pleuvra
pleuvra
20,381 corpus weight
- plop
plop
20,380 corpus weight
- Ploërmel
Ploërmel
20,379 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pleutre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleutre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pløtʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pleutre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pleutre is uncommon French at frequency #79,619 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pløtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pleutre, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pleutre, spelled P-L-E-U-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Personne vile et lâche.
- 2Personne sans caractère, sans courage, sans dignité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pleutre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce pleutre n’a rien fait pour défendre son honneur.
Je vais aller à l’hôtel de la rue Dauphine, où ce pleutre voulait m’envoyer assassiner le noble duc…
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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