plaidait
\ple.dɛ\
The verdict
“plaidait” is uncommon French (frequency #64,001 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,001
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plaider.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaidait · plaidait · French
plaidait · rank #64,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,001
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pivoines
Nearest frequency peer: pivoines (-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 « plaidait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piquette
piquette
36,002 corpus weight
- pivoines
pivoines
36,001 corpus weight
- plaidait
plaidait
36,000 corpus weight
- plaisanté
plaisanté
35,999 corpus weight
- plantage
plantage
35,998 corpus weight
- plaquages
plaquages
35,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plaidait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaidait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ple.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plaidait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plaidait is uncommon French at frequency #64,001 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ple.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plaider.".
Zero misspellings are on record for plaidait in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plaidait, spelled P-L-A-I-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plaider.
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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