plaider
\ple.de\
The verdict
“plaider” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,113. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,113
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contester en justice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaider · plaider · French
plaider · rank #14,113 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,113
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perturbations
Nearest frequency peer: perturbations (-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 « plaider »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pendre
pendre
85,891 corpus weight
- perquisition
perquisition
85,890 corpus weight
- perturbatio…
perturbations
85,889 corpus weight
- plaider
plaider
85,888 corpus weight
- plaies
plaies
85,887 corpus weight
- Platon
Platon
85,886 corpus weight
What this shows « plaider » 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 | plaider |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ple.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaider »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around plaider (IPA \ple.de\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,113 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaider, with forms such as "lpaider", "palider", and "pladier". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "plaie", "plier", "plaire", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is plaider, spelled P-L-A-I-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Contester en justice.
- 2Défendre ou soutenir de vive voix la cause ou le droit d’une partie devant les juges.
- 3Défendre ; soutenir.
- 4Avancer, soutenir un fait, employer, faire valoir un moyen en plaidant.
- 5Être susceptible d'une argumentation devant une autorité judiciaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plaider appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a dix ans qu’ils plaident l’un contre l’autre.
Ils plaident pour le partage d’une succession.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaider
- palider
- pladier
- plaidder
- plaiderr
- plaidre
- plaiedr
- pliader
- pllaider
- pplaider
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaider - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plaider", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).