pluie
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,293
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pluie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble de gouttes d’eau dues à la condensation de la vapeur d’eau de l’atmosphère, qui tombent du ciel sur la terre. Pronounced \plɥi\. It ranks #2,293 in French word frequency. Often confused with pue and plus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pluie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɥi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pluie is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɥi\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,293 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for pluie, with forms such as "lpuie", "pliue", and "plluie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pue", "plus", "puis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pluie, spelled P-L-U-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de gouttes d’eau dues à la condensation de la vapeur d’eau de l’atmosphère, qui tombent du ciel sur la terre.
- 2Tout ce qui semble tomber du ciel comme la pluie.
- 3Chose qui arrive en abondance.
- 4Chute d’un grand nombre d’étincelles produites par une certaine composition de matières inflammables.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpuie,pliue,plluie,pluei,ppluie,pulie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pluie
Misspelling Variants of "pluie"
Frequency rank: #2,293 in French
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