écran plat

\e.kʁɑ̃ pla\

/\e.kʁɑ̃ pla\/ noun

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.

Key facts for écran plat
PropertyValue
Headwordécran plat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.kʁɑ̃ pla\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “écran plat” sits in French frequency

écran plat falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Écran peu épais comme écran à cristaux liquides, écran à plasma ou écran OLED, par opposition à l’écran à tube cathodique.
  2. 2
    Téléviseur 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "écran plat"?
"écran plat" is spelled É-C-R-A-N- -P-L-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \e.kʁɑ̃ pla\.
What does "écran plat" mean?
As a noun, "écran plat" means: Écran peu épais comme écran à cristaux liquides, écran à plasma ou écran OLED, par opposition à l’écran à tube cathodique.
How do you pronounce "écran plat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "écran plat" is \e.kʁɑ̃ pla\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "écran plat" come from?
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Using “écran plat”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as \e.kʁɑ̃ pla\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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