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How to spell plume

hear itplume/plum/nounLong vowels

What it means: A large or showy feather.

In a sentence: The peacock showed off its bright plume of feathers.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as ploom or plum.

Same family: plumes, plumed, pluming, plumage, feather. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Plume comes from the Latin word "pluma," meaning a small soft feather. The verb sense "to plume" in English grew from the idea of a bird tending or arranging its feathers with its bill.

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