plumard
\ply.mɑʁ\
The verdict
“plumard” is uncommon French (frequency #79,623 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,623
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plumard · plumard · French
plumard · rank #79,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,623
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Ploërmel
Nearest frequency peer: Ploërmel (-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 « plumard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pleuvra
pleuvra
20,381 corpus weight
- plop
plop
20,380 corpus weight
- Ploërmel
Ploërmel
20,379 corpus weight
- plumard
plumard
20,378 corpus weight
- poignants
poignants
20,377 corpus weight
- poisseuse
poisseuse
20,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plumard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plumard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ply.mɑʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plumard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plumard is uncommon French at frequency #79,623 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ply.mɑʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lit.".
plumard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is plumard, spelled P-L-U-M-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Lit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plumard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lit sale, effondré, n'est pas le plumard des ménages, soigneusement fait chaque matin par la ménagère. Plumard, le lit de plumes, cette conquête sur la misère. Le lit de l'hôtel meublé, de la tole, c'est le pucier cher à la vermine : l'endroit où l'on souffre.
Je finis par me demander s’il avait les quelques sous nécessaires pour se payer un plumard.
Synonyms
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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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