plaida
\ple.da\
The verdict
“plaida” is uncommon French (frequency #87,945 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,945
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de plaider.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaida · plaida · French
plaida · rank #87,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,945
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH placerai
Nearest frequency peer: placerai (-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 « plaida »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piétonnisat…
piétonnisation
12,058 corpus weight
- placerai
placerai
12,057 corpus weight
- plaida
plaida
12,056 corpus weight
- planante
planante
12,055 corpus weight
- platonisme
platonisme
12,054 corpus weight
- pleurésie
pleurésie
12,053 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plaida » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaida |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ple.da\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plaida » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plaida is uncommon French at frequency #87,945 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ple.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de plaider.".
Zero misspellings are on record for plaida in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plaida, spelled P-L-A-I-D-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de plaider.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaida appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait une fille de chariots sur le pont, j'ai dû attendre dix minutes avant de pouvoir traverser, plaida-t-elle.
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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