pleuvaient

\plø.vɛ\

/\plø.vɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“pleuvaient” is uncommon French (frequency #97,289 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#97,289
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de pleuvoir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pleuvaient · pleuvaient · French

pleuvaient · rank #97,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #97,289
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH planus

Nearest frequency peer: planus (-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 « pleuvaient »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pleuvaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for pleuvaient
PropertyValue
Headwordpleuvaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\plø.vɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#97,289
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « pleuvaient » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).pleuvaienttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « planus » (#97,288), « pliables » (#97,290), « plaisantins » (#97,287). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pleuvaient » est au #97,289. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pleuvaient is uncommon French at frequency #97,289 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \plø.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de pleuvoir.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pleuvaient, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pleuvaient, spelled P-L-E-U-V-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de pleuvoir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pleuvaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Malgré les coups qui pleuvaient, ils arrachèrent Labadie à la mort et le transportèrent chez Jasmine.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pleuvaient"?
"pleuvaient" is spelled P-L-E-U-V-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \plø.vɛ\.
What does "pleuvaient" mean?
As a verb, "pleuvaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de pleuvoir.
How do you pronounce "pleuvaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pleuvaient" is \plø.vɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pleuvaient" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pleuvaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list