ploum
\plum\
The verdict
“ploum” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plouc, péquenot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ploum · ploum · French
ploum · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 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 | ploum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plum\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ploum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ploum is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plum\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plouc, péquenot.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ploum in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 ploum, spelled P-L-O-U-M.
Definition
- 1Plouc, péquenot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ploum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’aime que la belote « tout atout-sans atout », l’autre, la simple, est celle des ploums ou des tarés.
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.