pleuvaient
\plø.vɛ\
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
- plaindront
plaindront
2,715 corpus weight
- plaisantins
plaisantins
2,714 corpus weight
- planus
planus
2,713 corpus weight
- pleuvaient
pleuvaient
2,712 corpus weight
- pliables
pliables
2,711 corpus weight
- pluviométri…
pluviométrique
2,710 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pleuvaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleuvaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plø.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pleuvaient » en français
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
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de pleuvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pleuvaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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