plaid
\plɛ\
The verdict
“plaid” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,909. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,909
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Procès, assemblée ou juridiction du Moyen Âge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaid · plaid · French
plaid · rank #29,909 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,909
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pingouins
Nearest frequency peer: pingouins (-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 « plaid »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- piazza
piazza
70,095 corpus weight
- piments
piments
70,094 corpus weight
- pingouins
pingouins
70,093 corpus weight
- plaid
plaid
70,092 corpus weight
- plèbe
plèbe
70,091 corpus weight
- podcasts
podcasts
70,090 corpus weight
What this shows « plaid » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaid »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around plaid (IPA \plɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,909 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Procès, assemblée ou juridiction du Moyen Âge.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaid, with forms such as "lpaid", "palid", and "pladi". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pli", "plan", "plat", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is plaid, spelled P-L-A-I-D.
Definition
- 1Procès, assemblée ou juridiction du Moyen Âge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plaid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au-dessous encore existaient d’autres assemblées : celles des vicaires, des centeniers ; que dis-je, les moindres bénéficiers, les intendants des fermes royales, tenaient des plaids comme les comtes.
En discorde (discordia) avec eux à cause de terres et d'autres biens qu'ils leur avaient injustement enlevés, ils se sont rendus au plaid (placitum) à Laizé en présence du cellérier et du doyen de ce lieu. Là, ils ont abandonné leur injustice (calumpnia).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaid
- palid
- pladi
- plaidd
- pliad
- pllaid
- pplaid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaid - 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.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).