plombée
The verdict
“plombée” is uncommon French (frequency #57,507 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,507
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de plombé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plombee · plombée · French
plombée · rank #57,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,507
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plafonner
Nearest frequency peer: plafonner (-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 « plombée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pintade
pintade
42,497 corpus weight
- plafonner
plafonner
42,495 corpus weight
- plombée
plombée
42,494 corpus weight
- pluriels
pluriels
42,493 corpus weight
- pointées
pointées
42,492 corpus weight
- poissonnier
poissonnier
42,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plombée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plombée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plombée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plombée is uncommon French at frequency #57,507 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de plombé.".
plombée has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is plombée, spelled P-L-O-M-B-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de plombé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plombée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il adoptait l’hiver le carrick noisette à trois collets et avait une canne plombée nécessitée par la profonde solitude de quelques parties de son quartier.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).