plaie

/\plɛ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,055

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

plaie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lésion du corps provenant soit d’une blessure sanglante ou d’une contusion, soit d’un accident physiologique. Pronounced \plɛ\. It ranks #9,055 in French word frequency. Often confused with pli and plan.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of plaie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for plaie is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,055 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for plaie, with forms such as "lpaie", "palie", and "plaei". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pli", "plan", "plat", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is plaie, spelled P-L-A-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: lpaie,palie,plaei,pliae,pllaie,pplaie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plaie

Misspelling Variants of "plaie"

lpaie5palie5plaei5pliae5pllaie6pplaie6
Misspelling Variants of "plaie"

Frequency rank: #9,055 in French

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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.