plus
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#31
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
plus is anFrenchadv. It means: Comparatif de beaucoup. On peut l’utiliser avec que. (\plys\) Pronounced \ply\. It ranks #31 in French word frequency. Often confused with pu and PS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \ply\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plus is 4 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ply\. Corpus data places it at rank #31 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for plus, with forms such as "lpus", "pllus", and "plsu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "pub", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is plus, spelled P-L-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Comparatif de beaucoup. On peut l’utiliser avec que. (\plys\)
- 2Comparatif de beaucoup de. Davantage de. On peut l’utiliser avec que. (\plys\)
- 3Indique le comparatif d’un adjectif ou d’un adverbe. Davantage. On peut l’utiliser avec que. (\ply\)
- 4Superlatif de beaucoup, comme un adverbe pour le verbe. Le premier en quantité ou en intensité. (\plys\)
- 5Indique le superlatif d’un adjectif ou d’un adverbe. Le premier en cette qualité, ou au pluriel, du premier à un certain rang. (\ply\) Note d’usage : L’adverbe prend toujours la forme au masculin singulier le plus.
- 6(plus…, plus, plus…, moins) Employé avec répétition, ou en corrélation avec moins pour indiquer une relation proportionnelle. (\ply\)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpus,pllus,plsu,pluss,pplus,puls
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plus
Misspelling Variants of "plus"
Frequency rank: #31 in French
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