pluvier
French, noun/ply.vje/
pluvier is spelled P-L-U-V-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 86,540th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pluvier is a French masculine noun meaning “plover” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier, limicole de rivage, qui arrive en troupe à la saison des pluies”.
What does pluvier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplover
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier, limicole de rivage, qui arrive en troupe à la saison des pluies.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pluvier
- pluviers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pluvier?
- /ply.vje/
- \ply.vje\
- [ply.vje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pluvier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pluvier in French?
pluvier appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).