plus loin
\ply lwɛ̃\
The verdict
“plus loin” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À une certaine distance d’ici.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plus-loin · plus loin · French
plus loin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | plus loin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ply lwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plus loin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plus loin is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ply lwɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
plus loin has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is plus loin, spelled P-L-U-S- -L-O-I-N.
Definition
- 1À une certaine distance d’ici.
- 2Dans la partie suivante de ce texte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plus loin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a une jolie boutique plus loin.
Il se rappela leurs conversations d’antan, avec Abraham, quand ils se moquaient d’eux-mêmes, incapables – et sans réel désir alors – de la quitter cette région, de pousser plus loin qu’Utrecht, enracinés tels de vieux arbres dans ce sol si familier. Indécrottables sédentaires.
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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.