plumitif
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The verdict
“plumitif” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Registre des arrêts et des sentences d’une audience, compte-rendu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plumitif · plumitif · French
plumitif · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plumitif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ply.mi.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plumitif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plumitif is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ply.mi.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for plumitif, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is plumitif, spelled P-L-U-M-I-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Registre des arrêts et des sentences d’une audience, compte-rendu.
- 2Personne qui vit de sa plume, écrivain.
- 3Greffier, clerc de notaire, secrétaire, employé aux écritures, bureaucrate.
- 4Écrivain, journaliste, dont le style est médiocre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plumitif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les minutes notariales et les plumitifs de juridictions.
On a le détail des nombreuses assemblées qui se tinrent […] J’en ai sous les yeux les récits manuscrits, les comptes rendus jour par jour, les incidents, les opinions, tout le plumitif.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.