plaidoirie
\plɛ.dwa.ʁi\
The verdict
“plaidoirie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,307. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,307
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de plaider ; discours de l’avocat qui plaide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaidoirie · plaidoirie · French
plaidoirie · rank #30,307 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #30,307
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piercing
Nearest frequency peer: piercing (-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 « plaidoirie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- peuplent
peuplent
69,697 corpus weight
- philippine
philippine
69,696 corpus weight
- piercing
piercing
69,695 corpus weight
- plaidoirie
plaidoirie
69,694 corpus weight
- pollué
pollué
69,693 corpus weight
- ponce
ponce
69,692 corpus weight
What this shows « plaidoirie » 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 | plaidoirie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɛ.dwa.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaidoirie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around plaidoirie (IPA \plɛ.dwa.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,307 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaidoirie, with forms such as "lpaidoirie", "palidoirie", and "pladioirie". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "plaidoiries", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 plaidoirie, spelled P-L-A-I-D-O-I-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Action de plaider ; discours de l’avocat qui plaide.
- 2Art, la profession de l’avocat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plaidoirie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mes divertissements étaient encore des plaidoiries, et mes conversations des mémoires.
L’avocat de Nicolas Sarkozy, Vincent Desry, doit plaider ce vendredi matin, ouvrant le bal des plaidoiries de la défense.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaidoirie
- palidoirie
- pladioirie
- plaiddoirie
- plaidiorie
- plaidoiire
- plaidoirei
- plaidoirrie
- plaidoriie
- plaiodirie
- pliadoirie
- pllaidoirie
- pplaidoirie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaidoirie - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).