plaie

\plɛ\

/\plɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“plaie” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,055. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,055
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lésion du corps provenant soit d’une blessure sanglante ou d’une contusion, soit d’un accident physiologique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-plaie · plaie · French

plaie · rank #9,055 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,055
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pin

Nearest frequency peer: pin (-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 « plaie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « plaie » 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).

plaie vs pli
60% similar
plaie vs plan
60% similar
plaie vs plat
60% similar

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

Key facts for plaie
PropertyValue
Headwordplaie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\plɛ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,055
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).plaiese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pin » (#9,054), « platine » (#9,056), « percer » (#9,053). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « plaie » est au #9,055. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around plaie (IPA \plɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,055 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaie, with forms such as "lpaie", "palie", and "plaei". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pli", "plan", "plat", and more, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is plaie, spelled P-L-A-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lésion du corps provenant soit d’une blessure sanglante ou d’une contusion, soit d’un accident physiologique.
  2. 2
    Lésion ou ouverture dans l’écorce des arbres.
  3. 3
    Cicatrice.
  4. 4
    Ce qui est très préjudiciable à un état, à une famille, à un particulier.
  5. 5
    Fléau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le suc d'une certaine plante appelée par les Caraïbes touloula, et par les Français herbes aux flèches, est, dit-on, le seul remède contre les plaies faites par les flèches empoisonnées avec le suc de mancenilier.
  2. […] Marguerite, d’une aiguille d’or à la pointe arrondie, sondait les plaies avec toute la délicatesse et l’habileté que maître Ambroise Paré eût pu déployer en pareille circonstance.

This word in other languages

sore(English)herida(Español)lesão(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • lpaie
  • palie
  • plaei
  • pliae
  • pllaie
  • pplaie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

lpaie2palie2plaei2pliae2pllaie1pplaie1
Edit distance from "plaie"

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 "plaie"?
"plaie" is spelled P-L-A-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plɛ\.
What does "plaie" mean?
As a noun, "plaie" means: Lésion du corps provenant soit d’une blessure sanglante ou d’une contusion, soit d’un accident physiologique.
What words are commonly confused with "plaie"?
"plaie" is commonly confused with "pli", "plan", "plat". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "plaie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plaie" is \plɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plaie" come from?
"plaie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list