plumeau
\ply.mo\
The verdict
“plumeau” is uncommon French (frequency #85,138 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,138
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ustensile de ménage, fait avec de grosses plumes de dindon, de coq, etc., qui sert à enlever la poussière de dessus les meubles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plumeau · plumeau · French
plumeau · rank #85,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,138
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleurerai
Nearest frequency peer: pleurerai (-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 « plumeau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piz
piz
14,865 corpus weight
- pleurerai
pleurerai
14,864 corpus weight
- plumeau
plumeau
14,863 corpus weight
- plurilingui…
plurilinguisme
14,862 corpus weight
- Poitevine
Poitevine
14,860 corpus weight
- polisson
polisson
14,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plumeau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plumeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ply.mo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plumeau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plumeau is uncommon French at frequency #85,138 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ply.mo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for plumeau, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is plumeau, spelled P-L-U-M-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Ustensile de ménage, fait avec de grosses plumes de dindon, de coq, etc., qui sert à enlever la poussière de dessus les meubles.
- 2Inflorescence en forme de panache.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plumeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jamais il ne fallait battre les habits ni les meubles de peur de les user, mais les housser légèrement avec un plumeau.
J’ai, comme elle, frotté les meubles à l’eau japonaise, collectionné toutes sortes de cires, rangé de façon presque maniaque les différentes brosses ou plumeaux par tailles ou selon l'usage auquel ils étaient réservés.
This word in other languages
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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