plu
\ply\
The verdict
“plu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,380) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,380
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de pleuvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plu · plu · French
plu · rank #5,380 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,380
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planche
Nearest frequency peer: planche (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « plu »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- perds
perds
94,623 corpus weight
- planche
planche
94,622 corpus weight
- plu
plu
94,621 corpus weight
- plume
plume
94,620 corpus weight
- poignée
poignée
94,619 corpus weight
- popularité
popularité
94,618 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « plu » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ply\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « plu »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for plu is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ply\. Frequency #5,380 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de pleuvoir.".
Zero misspellings are on record for plu in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is plu, spelled P-L-U.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de pleuvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’aurait pas plu, ou l’averse eût été si menue qu’on n’a qu’une crainte : mouiller son chapeau, si bien qu’on l’ôte et que l’instituteur a maintenant trois colis au lieu de deux.
Il a tellement plu cet été que, dans certains jardins, il a poussé des fruits de mer.
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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