plusieurs
\ply.zjœʁ\
The verdict
“plusieurs” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #179 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #179
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Un certain nombre, un nombre indéfini mais facilement dénombrable, supérieur à un et le plus souvent à deux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plusieurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ply.zjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “plusieurs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plusieurs is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, 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". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 plusieurs, spelled P-L-U-S-I-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Un certain nombre, un nombre indéfini mais facilement dénombrable, supérieur à un et le plus souvent à deux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpusieurs,pllusieurs,plsuieurs,pluiseurs,pluseiurs,plusierus,plusieurrs,plusieurss,plusieusr,plusiuers,plussieurs,pplusieurs,pulsieurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plusieurs - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “plusieurs”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-L-U-S-I-E-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ply.zjœʁ\ (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.