plum
\plʌm\
The verdict
“plum” is uncommon French (frequency #63,248 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,248
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prunier, Prunus Domestica.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plum · plum · French
plum · rank #63,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,248
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plongera
Nearest frequency peer: plongera (-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 « plum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pleureuse
pleureuse
36,756 corpus weight
- PLF
PLF
36,755 corpus weight
- plongera
plongera
36,754 corpus weight
- plum
plum
36,753 corpus weight
- plébéiens
plébéiens
36,752 corpus weight
- pompom
pompom
36,751 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plʌm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plum is uncommon French at frequency #63,248 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plʌm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
plum has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 plum, spelled P-L-U-M.
Definition
- 1Prunier, Prunus Domestica.
- 2Prune, fruit de cet arbre.
- 3Prune, couleur violette tirant sur le bordeaux. #811453
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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