plût

\ply\

/\ply\/ verb

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The verdict

“plût” is uncommon French (frequency #99,488 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,488
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de plaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-plut · plût · French

plût · rank #99,488 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,488
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pluviosité

Nearest frequency peer: pluviosité (-1 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « plût »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plût » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for plût
PropertyValue
Headwordplût
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ply\
Letters4
Frequency rank#99,488
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « plût » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).plûttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « pluviosité » (#99,487), « plue » (#99,486), « polarités » (#99,490). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « plût » est au #99,488. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

plût is uncommon French at frequency #99,488 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ply\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de plaire.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for plût in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plût, spelled P-L-Û-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de plaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how plût appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Que plût aux Muses, pour le bien que je veux à notre langue, que vos ineptes œuvres fussent bannis, non seulement de là (comme ils sont) mais de toute la France.
  2. Plût à Dieu qu’elle eût persisté dans sa fierté première, […].

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plût"?
"plût" is spelled P-L-Û-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ply\.
What does "plût" mean?
As a verb, "plût" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de plaire.
How do you pronounce "plût"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plût" is \ply\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plût" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plût", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

plue#99,486otro#99,453RESF#99,566nari#99,409

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list