méplat
\me.pla\
The verdict
“méplat” is uncommon French (frequency #98,280 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,280
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a plus de largeur que d’épaisseur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meplat · méplat · French
méplat · rank #98,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,280
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH ménopausées
Nearest frequency peer: ménopausées (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « méplat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Musclor
Musclor
1,725 corpus weight
- mélangeaient
mélangeaient
1,723 corpus weight
- ménopausées
ménopausées
1,722 corpus weight
- méplat
méplat
1,721 corpus weight
- mérovingien…
mérovingiennes
1,720 corpus weight
- métissées
métissées
1,719 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « méplat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méplat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.pla\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méplat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méplat is uncommon French at frequency #98,280 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \me.pla\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for méplat, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is méplat, spelled M-É-P-L-A-T.
Definition
- 1Qui a plus de largeur que d’épaisseur.
- 2Qualifie une grume de section elliptique.
- 3Où l’épaisseur relative des premiers plans est atténuée.
- 4Qui établit le passage d’un plan à un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how méplat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Planche méplate.
[L]es arbres méplats ou à coeur excentré produisent également des bois hétérogènes se déformant lors du séchage, sauf s’ils sont débités en pièces de faible largeur […].
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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