plosif
\plɔ.zif\
The verdict
“plosif” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la plosion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plosif · plosif · French
plosif · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plosif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \plɔ.zif\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
plosif is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \plɔ.zif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la plosion.".
plosif doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plosif, spelled P-L-O-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la plosion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plosif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notre but est donc d’étudier la phase de nasalisation des voyelles nasales en PB devant deux contextes segmentaux (fricatif vs. plosif) et d’en proposer une nouvelle analyse. — (http://aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~fulltext/3296.pdf)
En effet, Fònagy (1989 : 233) cite l’exemple des mots latin ^([sic : latins]) caballum et fortia qui, par un processus de palatalisation puis d’affrication, ont donné respectivement les mots cheval et force (avec perte du segment plosif).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.