Ploërmel
\plɔ.ɛʁ.mɛl\
The verdict
“Ploërmel” is uncommon French (frequency #79,622 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,622
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ploermel · Ploërmel · French
Ploërmel · rank #79,622 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,622
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plop
Nearest frequency peer: plop (-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 « Ploërmel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pleutre
pleutre
20,382 corpus weight
- pleuvra
pleuvra
20,381 corpus weight
- plop
plop
20,380 corpus weight
- Ploërmel
Ploërmel
20,379 corpus weight
- plumard
plumard
20,378 corpus weight
- poignants
poignants
20,377 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ploërmel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ploërmel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \plɔ.ɛʁ.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ploërmel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ploërmel is uncommon French at frequency #79,622 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \plɔ.ɛʁ.mɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Ploërmel in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Ploërmel, spelled P-L-O-Ë-R-M-E-L.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Morbihan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ploërmel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, à Augan, Morbihan, petit village de mille six cents habitants branché à la N24, la voie rapide qui relie Rennes à Ploërmel, l’ouverture de l’épicerie le Garde-Manger en 2010 offre aux habitants bien plus que la possibilité de faire leurs courses.
Et plus haut, joyeusement gueulards, les chromos de M. Hugo d’Alési groupent quelques mules aux pieds légers dans des montagnes évidemment thermales, installent sur les routes auverpines de grands bœufs blancs tachés de ce que vous savez, et, sous d’obligeants clairs de lune, agenouillent des Bretons échappés du Pardon de Ploërmel aux seuils d'églises don…
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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