pruniers
\pʁy.nje\
The verdict
“pruniers” is uncommon French (frequency #63,265 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,265
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de prunier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pruniers · pruniers · French
pruniers · rank #63,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,265
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pryce
Nearest frequency peer: Pryce (+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 « pruniers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- programmate…
programmateurs
36,739 corpus weight
- protégerait
protégerait
36,738 corpus weight
- pruniers
pruniers
36,736 corpus weight
- Pryce
Pryce
36,735 corpus weight
- préférentie…
préférentiellement
36,734 corpus weight
- préviendra
préviendra
36,733 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pruniers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pruniers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁy.nje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pruniers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pruniers is uncommon French at frequency #63,265 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁy.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de prunier.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pruniers in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pruniers, spelled P-R-U-N-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de prunier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pruniers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques arbres, des amandiers, des pruniers et des abricotiers montraient leurs têtes grêles çà et là, dans cet enclos.
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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