plagiaire
\pla.ʒjɛʁ\
The verdict
“plagiaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui s’approprie ce qu’il a pillé dans les ouvrages d’autrui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plagiaire · plagiaire · French
plagiaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plagiaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pla.ʒjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
plagiaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pla.ʒjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui, celle qui s’approprie ce qu’il a pillé dans les ouvrages d’autrui.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for plagiaire, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is plagiaire, spelled P-L-A-G-I-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui s’approprie ce qu’il a pillé dans les ouvrages d’autrui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plagiaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La gloire est le seul héritage du véritable génie, […] ; il ne faut pas la lui laisser dérober par des plagiaires.
Non, non, elle ne croyait plus en moi. Elle ne voyait plus en moi qu’un plagiaire, réduit à ses proportions misérables.
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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.