plural
\ply.ʁal\
The verdict
“plural” is uncommon French (frequency #77,798 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,798
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui contient plusieurs unités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plural · plural · French
plural · rank #77,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,798
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PLUi
Nearest frequency peer: PLUi (-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 « plural »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plinthes
plinthes
22,207 corpus weight
- plongeuse
plongeuse
22,206 corpus weight
- PLUi
PLUi
22,204 corpus weight
- plural
plural
22,203 corpus weight
- plèvre
plèvre
22,202 corpus weight
- pointez
pointez
22,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plural » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plural |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ply.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plural » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plural is uncommon French at frequency #77,798 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ply.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
plural doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is plural, spelled P-L-U-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui contient plusieurs unités.
- 2Qualifie un système de vote qui, dans un collège électoral ou dans une assemblée d’actionnaires, attribue plusieurs voix à certains votants.
- 3Qualifie une œuvre dont plusieurs auteurs sont à l’origine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plural appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Non. Agir sur la situation démographique d'un peuple, […], ce n'est pas d'abord une question de primes, de petits impôts, ni de vote plural, c'est avant tout, en bonne raison : […].
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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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