plaidoyer
\plɛ.dwa.je\
The verdict
“plaidoyer” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,517
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discours prononcé à l’audience pour défendre le droit d’une partie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaidoyer · plaidoyer · French
plaidoyer · rank #17,517 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,517
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Philippot
Nearest frequency peer: Philippot (-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 « plaidoyer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perturbe
perturbe
82,487 corpus weight
- pessimiste
pessimiste
82,486 corpus weight
- Philippot
Philippot
82,485 corpus weight
- plaidoyer
plaidoyer
82,484 corpus weight
- planifié
planifié
82,483 corpus weight
- player
player
82,482 corpus weight
What this shows « plaidoyer » 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 | plaidoyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɛ.dwa.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaidoyer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around plaidoyer (IPA \plɛ.dwa.je\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,517 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaidoyer, with forms such as "lpaidoyer", "palidoyer", and "pladioyer". 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, "plaider", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 plaidoyer, spelled P-L-A-I-D-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Discours prononcé à l’audience pour défendre le droit d’une partie.
- 2Discours prononcé à l’audience pour défendre le droit d’une partie.
- 3Discours prononcé à l’audience pour défendre le droit d’une partie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plaidoyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un avocat ou un procureur va prononcer un plaidoyer devant un tribunal afin de convaincre les magistrats et/ou les jurés du bien-fondé de leur approche des faits.
À la Cour, ainsi que dans les châteaux des grands seigneurs, […], la langue franco-normande était la seule en usage ; dans les tribunaux, les plaidoyers et les arrêts étaient prononcés dans la même langue.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaidoyer
- palidoyer
- pladioyer
- plaiddoyer
- plaidoeyr
- plaidoyerr
- plaidoyre
- plaidoyyer
- plaidyoer
- plaiodyer
- pliadoyer
- pllaidoyer
- pplaidoyer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaidoyer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "plaidoyer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).