écran plat
\e.kʁɑ̃ pla\
The verdict
“écran plat” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Écran peu épais comme écran à cristaux liquides, écran à plasma ou écran OLED, par opposition à l’écran à tube cathodique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écran plat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁɑ̃ pla\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écran plat” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écran plat is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kʁɑ̃ pla\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for écran plat 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 écran plat, spelled É-C-R-A-N- -P-L-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Écran peu épais comme écran à cristaux liquides, écran à plasma ou écran OLED, par opposition à l’écran à tube cathodique.
- 2Téléviseur ou moniteur doté d’un tel écran.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-R-A-N- -P-L-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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