PLAI
The verdict
“PLAI” is uncommon French (frequency #61,790 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,790
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En France, type de prêt destiné à financer des logements destinés aux personnes en situation de grande précarité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plai · PLAI · French
PLAI · rank #61,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,790
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleasure
Nearest frequency peer: pleasure (+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 « PLAI »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piratée
piratée
38,214 corpus weight
- pitance
pitance
38,213 corpus weight
- PLAI
PLAI
38,211 corpus weight
- pleasure
pleasure
38,210 corpus weight
- Poligny
Poligny
38,209 corpus weight
- polyuréthane
polyuréthane
38,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « PLAI » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PLAI |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « PLAI » en français
Rare enough to double-check
PLAI is uncommon French at frequency #61,790 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for PLAI, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is PLAI, spelled P-L-A-I.
Definition
- 1En France, type de prêt destiné à financer des logements destinés aux personnes en situation de grande précarité.
- 2En France, catégorie de logements destinés aux personnes en situation de grande précarité, et financés grâce à ce prêt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how PLAI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors que le loyer au prix du marché atteint 25 € du m², le loyer d’un logement social de la première catégorie (PLAI) est d’environ 7 € du m².
Le logement PLAI permet aux personnes rencontrant des difficultés économiques et sociales de se loger.
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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