plage

\plaʒ\

/\plaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“plage” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,964
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étendue de sable ou de galets bordant un plan d’eau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-plage · plage · French

plage · rank #1,964 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,964
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH piste

Nearest frequency peer: piste (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « plage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « plage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

plage vs plan
60% similar
plage vs plat
60% similar
plage vs play
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for plage
PropertyValue
Headwordplage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\plaʒ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,964
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).plagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « piste » (#1,963), « policiers » (#1,965), « nice » (#1,962). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « plage » est au #1,964. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around plage (IPA \plaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,964 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for plage, with forms such as "lpage", "palge", and "plaeg". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plan", "plat", "play", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is plage, spelled P-L-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Étendue de sable ou de galets bordant un plan d’eau.
  2. 2
    Chacun des morceaux enregistrés sur un disque vinyle ou un CD.
  3. 3
    Partie plane située à l’arrière d’une voiture et couvrant la malle arrière.
  4. 4
    Zone sur un circuit dédiée aux contacts et aux autres types d’interconnexion électrique (brasure, câblage filaire, etc.).
  5. 5
    Partie d’un tout constituant un sous-ensemble cohérent et contigu.
  6. 6
    Groupe d’adresses IP consécutives.
  7. 7
    Dans un tableur, objet correspondant à un ensemble de cellules, formant une zone rectangulaire d’une feuille de calcul.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how plage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sur une plage de sable noir volcanique, des brisants déferlaient avec bruit.
  2. À partir du mois de juin, la plage, aujourd’hui disparue, se couvrait de tentes pour la saison des bains de mer.

Synonyms

grèveplage de cellules

This word in other languages

beach(English)playa(Español)Strand(Deutsch)praia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • lpage
  • palge
  • plaeg
  • plagge
  • plgae
  • pllage
  • pplage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

lpage2palge2plaeg2plagge1plgae2pllage1pplage1
Edit distance from "plage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plage"?
"plage" is spelled P-L-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plaʒ\.
What does "plage" mean?
As a noun, "plage" means: Étendue de sable ou de galets bordant un plan d’eau.
What words are commonly confused with "plage"?
"plage" is commonly confused with "plan", "plat", "play". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "plage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plage" is \plaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plage" come from?
"plage" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

piste#1,963prêts#1,972glace#1,954comte#1,947

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

telles7 variantsterres7 variantsvoyez7 variantschier7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list