plomberie

\plɔ̃.bʁi\

/\plɔ̃.bʁi\/ noun

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The verdict

“plomberie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,313. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,313
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de fondre et de travailler le plomb.

Corpus desk

Index FR-plomberie · plomberie · French

plomberie · rank #23,313 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #23,313
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plessis

Nearest frequency peer: plessis (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « plomberie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « plomberie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

plomberie vs plomber
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for plomberie
PropertyValue
Headwordplomberie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\plɔ̃.bʁi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#23,313
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plomberie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).plomberiese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plessis » (#23,312), « plongeur » (#23,314), « phénix » (#23,311). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « plomberie » est au #23,313. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around plomberie (IPA \plɔ̃.bʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,313 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for plomberie, with forms such as "lpomberie", "pllomberie", and "plmoberie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "plomber", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is plomberie, spelled P-L-O-M-B-E-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Art de fondre et de travailler le plomb.
  2. 2
    Lieu où l’on coule et où l’on travaille le plomb.
  3. 3
    Métier consistant à réaliser les canalisations dans les bâtiments.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des canalisations d’un bâtiment.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ramond n’était pas avec nous au lycée ; il travaillait avec son père, qui avait une entreprise de plomberie. Avec lui, nous pratiquions notre espagnol et surtout on faisait la fête.
  2. Je vais refaire la plomberie.

This word in other languages

plumbing(English)plomería(Español)Klempnerei(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • lpomberie
  • pllomberie
  • plmoberie
  • plobmerie
  • plombberie
  • plombeire
  • plomberei
  • plomberrie
  • plombreie
  • plomebrie
  • plommberie
  • polmberie
  • pplomberie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plomberie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

lpomberie2pllomberie1plmoberie2plobmerie2plombberie1plombeire2plomberei2plomberrie1
Edit distance from "plomberie"

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 "plomberie"?
"plomberie" is spelled P-L-O-M-B-E-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plɔ̃.bʁi\.
What does "plomberie" mean?
As a noun, "plomberie" means: Art de fondre et de travailler le plomb.
What words are commonly confused with "plomberie"?
"plomberie" is commonly confused with "plomber". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "plomberie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plomberie" is \plɔ̃.bʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plomberie" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Pentecôte#23,310populisme#23,317pacifiste#23,306pénitence#23,326

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

prélevés13 variantsrapportait13 variantsrejoindra13 variantsmouchoirs13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list