plusieurs
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#179
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
plusieurs is anFrenchadj. It means: Un certain nombre, un nombre indéfini mais facilement dénombrable, supérieur à un et le plus souvent à deux. Pronounced \ply.zjœʁ\. It ranks #179 in French word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plusieurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ply.zjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plusieurs is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ply.zjœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #179 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Un certain nombre, un nombre indéfini mais facilement dénombrable, supérieur à un et le plus souvent à deux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for plusieurs, with forms such as "lpusieurs", "pllusieurs", and "plsuieurs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 plusieurs, spelled P-L-U-S-I-E-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Un certain nombre, un nombre indéfini mais facilement dénombrable, supérieur à un et le plus souvent à deux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpusieurs,pllusieurs,plsuieurs,pluiseurs,pluseiurs,plusierus,plusieurrs,plusieurss,plusieusr,plusiuers,plussieurs,pplusieurs,pulsieurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plusieurs
Misspelling Variants of "plusieurs"
Frequency rank: #179 in French
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