plaident
\plɛd\
The verdict
“plaident” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,483. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,483
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de plaider.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaident · plaident · French
plaident · rank #37,483 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,483
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pirogue
Nearest frequency peer: pirogue (-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 « plaident »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pigalle
Pigalle
62,521 corpus weight
- pir
pir
62,520 corpus weight
- pirogue
pirogue
62,519 corpus weight
- plaident
plaident
62,518 corpus weight
- pliant
pliant
62,517 corpus weight
- pointait
pointait
62,516 corpus weight
What this shows « plaident » 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 | plaident |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaident »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around plaident (IPA \plɛd\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,483 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaident, with forms such as "lpaident", "palident", and "pladient". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "plaint", "plient", "plaider", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is plaident, spelled P-L-A-I-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de plaider.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de plaider.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaident appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faudrait écrire un livre si l’on voulait entrer dans le détail des considérations philologiques qui plaident pour un développement sérieux des études relatives aux idiomes populaires répandus sur toute la surface du domaine français.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaident
- palident
- pladient
- plaiddent
- plaidennt
- plaidentt
- plaidetn
- plaidnet
- plaiednt
- pliadent
- pllaident
- pplaident
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaident - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).