plaidoirie

\plɛ.dwa.ʁi\

/\plɛ.dwa.ʁi\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « plaidoirie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

plaidoirie vs plaidoiries
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for plaidoirie
PropertyValue
Headwordplaidoirie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\plɛ.dwa.ʁi\
Letters10
Frequency rank#30,307
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaidoirie »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.plaidoiriese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « piercing » (#30,306), « pollué » (#30,308), « philippine » (#30,305). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « plaidoirie » est au #30,307. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Action de plaider ; discours de l’avocat qui plaide.
  2. 2
    Art, la profession de l’avocat.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how plaidoirie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mes divertissements étaient encore des plaidoiries, et mes conversations des mémoires.
  2. 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.

lpaidoirie2palidoirie2pladioirie2plaiddoirie1plaidiorie2plaidoiire2plaidoirei2plaidoirrie1
Edit distance from "plaidoirie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plaidoirie"?
"plaidoirie" is spelled P-L-A-I-D-O-I-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plɛ.dwa.ʁi\.
What does "plaidoirie" mean?
As a noun, "plaidoirie" means: Action de plaider ; discours de l’avocat qui plaide.
What words are commonly confused with "plaidoirie"?
"plaidoirie" is commonly confused with "plaidoiries". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "plaidoirie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plaidoirie" is \plɛ.dwa.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plaidoirie" come from?
"plaidoirie" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plaidoirie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list