plosive
\plɔ.ziv\
The verdict
“plosive” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Consonne, plus couramment appelée occlusive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plosive · plosive · French
plosive · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | plosive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɔ.ziv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
plosive is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɔ.ziv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Consonne, plus couramment appelée occlusive.".
plosive has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 plosive, spelled P-L-O-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Consonne, plus couramment appelée occlusive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plosive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les classes retenus et décrites plus bas sont plosive, nasale, vibrante, battue, fricative, fricative latérale, approximante et approximante latérale.
On désigne du terme de plosive (on disait autrefois explosive) un son non nasal produit par la fermeture complète et momentanée du chenal expiratoire résultant du contact entre deux articulateurs.
This word in other languages
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.