pluvier
\ply.vje\
The verdict
“pluvier” is uncommon French (frequency #87,023 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,023
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier, limicole de rivage, qui arrive en troupe à la saison des pluies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pluvier · pluvier · French
pluvier · rank #87,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,023
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PMC
Nearest frequency peer: PMC (+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 « pluvier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pisteur
pisteur
12,982 corpus weight
- plaisantent
plaisantent
12,980 corpus weight
- pluvier
pluvier
12,978 corpus weight
- PMC
PMC
12,977 corpus weight
- poivrot
poivrot
12,976 corpus weight
- ponchos
ponchos
12,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pluvier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pluvier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ply.vje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pluvier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pluvier is uncommon French at frequency #87,023 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ply.vje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier, limicole de rivage, qui arrive en troupe à la saison des pluies.".
pluvier has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 pluvier, spelled P-L-U-V-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier, limicole de rivage, qui arrive en troupe à la saison des pluies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pluvier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La chair de pluvier est d’un goût exquis & délicat. . (« L’agronome ou dictionnaire portatif du cultivateur. », Rouen, 1787)
J’éloignai de mes lèvres son mauvais café – le café trop noir et trop amer qu’on déguste à Londres dans des tasses moins grandes que des œufs de pluvier […]
This word in other languages
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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