pluviôse
\ply.vjoz\
The verdict
“pluviôse” is uncommon French (frequency #50,426 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,426
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cinquième mois du calendrier républicain, qui commençait le 20 ou le 21 janvier et finissait le 18 ou le 19 février.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pluviose · pluviôse · French
pluviôse · rank #50,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,426
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plongeante
Nearest frequency peer: plongeante (-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 « pluviôse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plasticiens
plasticiens
49,579 corpus weight
- platt
platt
49,578 corpus weight
- plongeante
plongeante
49,576 corpus weight
- pluviôse
pluviôse
49,575 corpus weight
- poissonnerie
poissonnerie
49,572 corpus weight
- portraitiste
portraitiste
49,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pluviôse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pluviôse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ply.vjoz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pluviôse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pluviôse is uncommon French at frequency #50,426 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ply.vjoz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cinquième mois du calendrier républicain, qui commençait le 20 ou le 21 janvier et finissait le 18 ou le 19 février.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pluviôse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pluviôse, spelled P-L-U-V-I-Ô-S-E.
Definition
- 1Cinquième mois du calendrier républicain, qui commençait le 20 ou le 21 janvier et finissait le 18 ou le 19 février.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pluviôse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Discours prononcé par le cᵉⁿ Langlois, président de l’administration centrale du département de l’Eure, à la fête du 2 pluviôse an 7, jour anniversaire de la juste punition du dernier roi des Français.
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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