plongea
\plɔ̃.ʒa\
The verdict
“plongea” is uncommon French (frequency #51,662 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,662
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de plonger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plongea · plongea · French
plongea · rank #51,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,662
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH playback
Nearest frequency peer: playback (-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 « plongea »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pines
pines
48,342 corpus weight
- pinède
pinède
48,341 corpus weight
- playback
playback
48,340 corpus weight
- plongea
plongea
48,339 corpus weight
- pluriannuel
pluriannuel
48,338 corpus weight
- pluspart
pluspart
48,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plongea » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plongea |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɔ̃.ʒa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plongea » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plongea is uncommon French at frequency #51,662 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \plɔ̃.ʒa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de plonger.".
plongea doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is plongea, spelled P-L-O-N-G-E-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de plonger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plongea appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle plongea sans perdre une seconde.
Lucy se plongea dans ses dosages d’acide urique, de cholestérolémie et autres Numérations de Formules Sanguines avec un bonheur qui l’étonna.
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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