# platter

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #21,026

## Definitions
1. A tray for serving foods.
2. A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.
3. The hard surface of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played.
4. A vinyl record.
5. One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.

## Etymology
From Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel, from Old French plate (“metal plate”) (see plate). Doublet of plateau.

## Easily confused with
- **player** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/platter-vs-player)
- **potter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/platter-vs-potter)
- **putter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/platter-vs-putter)
- **plate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plate-vs-platter)
- **platt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/platt-vs-platter)
- **plates** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plates-vs-platter)
- **plated** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plated-vs-platter)
- **patten** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/patten-vs-platter)
- **placer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/placer-vs-platter)
- **Platte** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/platte-vs-platter)
- **patted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/patted-vs-platter)
- **patter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/patter-vs-platter)
- **pattern** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pattern-vs-platter)
- **planted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/planted-vs-platter)
- **planner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/planner-vs-platter)
- **plaster** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plaster-vs-platter)
- **planter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/planter-vs-platter)
- **plantar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plantar-vs-platter)

## Common misspellings (9)
`lpatter`, `paltter`, `plater`, `platetr`, `platterr`, `plattre`, `pllatter`, `pltater`, `pplatter`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/platter