plongeoir
French, noun/plɔ̃.ʒwaʁ/
plongeoir is spelled P-L-O-N-G-E-O-I-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plongeoir is a French masculine noun meaning “diving board, springboard (diving board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform, used for diving into water)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Planche en altitude qui sert à plonger”.
What does plongeoir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinediving board, springboard (diving board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform, used for diving into water)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Planche en altitude qui sert à plonger.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of plongeoir
- plongeoirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce plongeoir?
- /plɔ̃.ʒwaʁ/
- \plɔ̃.ʒwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is plongeoir in French?
plongeoir appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).