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plafond

/pləˈfɒn(d)/noun

plafond is spelled P-L-A-F-O-N-D: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, plafond means “A ceiling, especially one that is ornately decorated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of plafond is plafonds.

How many letters and syllables are in plafond?

Letters7: P-L-A-F-O-N-D
In writingabout once in every 48 million words; the 214,628th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is plafond?

Plafond appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce plafond?

  • /pləˈfɒn(d)/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-plafond.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of plafond

  • plafonds plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does plafond mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A ceiling, especially one that is ornately decorated.

  2. 2

    A painting or decoration on a ceiling.

  3. 3

    The tibial plafond.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Plafond in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanPlafond (decorated ceiling), Deckenbemalung, Deckenverzierung (painting or decoration itself)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does plafond come from?

Borrowed from French plafond (“ceiling”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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