pluvial
\ply.vjal\
The verdict
“pluvial” is uncommon French (frequency #76,903 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,903
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à la pluie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pluvial · pluvial · French
pluvial · rank #76,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,903
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plisson
Nearest frequency peer: plisson (-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 « pluvial »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plafonnés
plafonnés
23,102 corpus weight
- plagiats
plagiats
23,101 corpus weight
- plisson
plisson
23,099 corpus weight
- pluvial
pluvial
23,098 corpus weight
- plébéien
plébéien
23,097 corpus weight
- Poirson
Poirson
23,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pluvial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pluvial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ply.vjal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pluvial » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pluvial is uncommon French at frequency #76,903 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ply.vjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pluvial in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pluvial, spelled P-L-U-V-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à la pluie.
- 2Qui reçoit beaucoup de pluie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pluvial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les murs, […], prouvaient le mauvais état de la toiture, où des taches, semblables à des filets bruns, indiquaient les infiltrations des eaux pluviales.
Les terres en général sont froides et compactes ; les eaux pluviales s'y infiltrent lentement et les rendent fort humides pendant l'hiver et le printemps ; on les désigne, dans le pays, sous le nom de gruette et de bournais.
Synonyms
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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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