plumer
\ply.me\
The verdict
“plumer” is uncommon French (frequency #51,050 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,050
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arracher les plumes d’un oiseau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plumer · plumer · French
plumer · rank #51,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,050
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pollueur
Nearest frequency peer: pollueur (+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 « plumer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plaisaient
plaisaient
48,954 corpus weight
- pliable
pliable
48,953 corpus weight
- plumer
plumer
48,951 corpus weight
- pollueur
pollueur
48,950 corpus weight
- ponctuées
ponctuées
48,949 corpus weight
- pontons
pontons
48,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plumer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plumer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ply.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plumer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plumer is uncommon French at frequency #51,050 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ply.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for plumer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is plumer, spelled P-L-U-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Arracher les plumes d’un oiseau.
- 2Action consistant à ramener la pelle en arrière après le coup d'aviron en effleurant la surface de l'eau.
- 3Dépouiller de son argent, en parlant d’une personne.
- 4Éplucher.
- 5Aller au plumard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plumer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plumer à froid. Plumer dans l’eau chaude.
Que va dire ma sœur ? J’ai oublié de plumer et de préparer le poulet pour notre dîner.
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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