plaine
"plaine" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plaine” is uncommon English (frequency #86,635 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,635
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of plain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-plaine · plaine · English
plaine · rank #86,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,635
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH PIV
Nearest frequency peer: PIV (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “plaine”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Pinay
Pinay
13,369 corpus weight
- PIV
PIV
13,367 corpus weight
- plaine
plaine
13,366 corpus weight
- Plautus
Plautus
13,364 corpus weight
- playfield
playfield
13,363 corpus weight
- Plympton
Plympton
13,362 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “plaine” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “plaine” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
plaine is uncommon English at frequency #86,635 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of plain.".
No misspelling variants are generated for plaine in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is plaine, spelled P-L-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of plain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a…
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.