pluviosité
\ply.vjɔ.zi.te\
The verdict
“pluviosité” is uncommon French (frequency #99,487 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,487
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quantité d’eau météorique qui tombe à un endroit déterminé, au cours d’une période donnée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pluviosite · pluviosité · French
pluviosité · rank #99,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,487
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plue
Nearest frequency peer: plue (-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 « pluviosité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plaquettaire
plaquettaire
517 corpus weight
- pleurnichard
pleurnichard
516 corpus weight
- plue
plue
515 corpus weight
- pluviosité
pluviosité
514 corpus weight
- plût
plût
513 corpus weight
- polarités
polarités
511 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pluviosité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pluviosité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ply.vjɔ.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pluviosité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pluviosité is uncommon French at frequency #99,487 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ply.vjɔ.zi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pluviosité, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pluviosité, spelled P-L-U-V-I-O-S-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Quantité d’eau météorique qui tombe à un endroit déterminé, au cours d’une période donnée.
- 2Tendance à pleuvoir.
- 3Étude des conditions de chutes de pluie en fonction de la fréquence, de la durée, de la quantité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pluviosité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans toute la vallée moyenne on observe généralement deux périodes de grande pluviosité : l’une hivernale (novembre-décembre), l’autre vernale (février-avril) […]
Le long des rivières, des colonies ont pourtant pu descendre des montagnes et, quand le sol est humide, des holarctiques peuvent braver la faible pluviosité du climat méditerranéen.
Synonyms
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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