plural
\ply.ʁal\
The verdict
“plural” is an uncommon French word, ranked #77,798 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #77,798
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui contient plusieurs unités.
| 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) |
Where “plural” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plural is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ply.ʁal\. Corpus data places it at rank #77,798 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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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Using “plural”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-L-U-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ply.ʁal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.