plusieurs

/\ply.zjœʁ\/ adj

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.

Key facts for plusieurs
PropertyValue
Headwordplusieurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ply.zjœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#179
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of plusieurs in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    Un certain nombre, un nombre indéfini mais facilement dénombrable, supérieur à un et le plus souvent à deux.

Synonyms

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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"

lpusieurs9pllusieurs10plsuieurs9pluiseurs9pluseiurs9plusierus9plusieurrs10plusieurss10
Misspelling Variants of "plusieurs"

Frequency rank: #179 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plusieurs"?
"plusieurs" is spelled P-L-U-S-I-E-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ply.zjœʁ\.
What does "plusieurs" mean?
As an adj, "plusieurs" means: Un certain nombre, un nombre indéfini mais facilement dénombrable, supérieur à un et le plus souvent à deux.
What are common misspellings of "plusieurs"?
Common misspellings include "lpusieurs", "pllusieurs", "plsuieurs", "pluiseurs", "pluseiurs". The correct spelling is "plusieurs".
How do you pronounce "plusieurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plusieurs" is \ply.zjœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plusieurs" come from?
"plusieurs" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.