une pluralité de

\yn ply.ʁa.li.te də\

/\yn ply.ʁa.li.te də\/ adj

The verdict

“une pluralité de” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deux ou plus. Note d’usage : Dans les brevets, on n’écrit pas simplement des mais cette locution avec un nom au pluriel quand on introduit nouvellement un groupe de deux ou plus.

Key facts for une pluralité de
PropertyValue
Headwordune pluralité de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\yn ply.ʁa.li.te də\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “une pluralité de” sits in French frequency

une pluralité de falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for une pluralité de is 16 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \yn ply.ʁa.li.te də\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Deux ou plus. Note d’usage : Dans les brevets, on n’écrit pas simplement des mais cette locution avec un nom au pluriel quand on introduit nouvellement un groupe de deux ou plus.".

No misspelling variants are generated for une pluralité de in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is une pluralité de, spelled U-N-E- -P-L-U-R-A-L-I-T-É- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Deux ou plus. Note d’usage : Dans les brevets, on n’écrit pas simplement des mais cette locution avec un nom au pluriel quand on introduit nouvellement un groupe de deux ou plus.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "une pluralité de"?
"une pluralité de" is spelled U-N-E- -P-L-U-R-A-L-I-T-É- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \yn ply.ʁa.li.te də\.
What does "une pluralité de" mean?
As an adjective, "une pluralité de" means: Deux ou plus. Note d’usage : Dans les brevets, on n’écrit pas simplement des mais cette locution avec un nom au pluriel quand on introduit nouvellement un groupe de deux ou plus.
How do you pronounce "une pluralité de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "une pluralité de" is \yn ply.ʁa.li.te də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "une pluralité de" come from?
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Using “une pluralité de”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is U-N-E- -P-L-U-R-A-L-I-T-É- -D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \yn ply.ʁa.li.te də\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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