plue
\ˈplu.e\
The verdict
“plue” is uncommon French (frequency #99,486 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,486
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’ailleurs, en outre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plue · plue · French
plue · rank #99,486 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,486
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleurnichard
Nearest frequency peer: pleurnichard (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « plue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plaindrais
plaindrais
518 corpus weight
- plaquettaire
plaquettaire
517 corpus weight
- pleurnichard
pleurnichard
516 corpus weight
- plue
plue
515 corpus weight
- pluviosité
pluviosité
514 corpus weight
- plût
plût
513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈplu.e\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #99,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plue is uncommon French at frequency #99,486 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ˈplu.e\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’ailleurs, en outre.".
plue doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plue, spelled P-L-U-E.
Definition
- 1D’ailleurs, en outre.
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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