plaie
French, noun
plaie is spelled P-L-A-I-E (5 letters) and appears 6.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,979th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plaie is a French feminine noun meaning “open wound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a diaeresis, plaïe is a different word: “alternative form of plage, beach”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lésion du corps provenant soit d’une blessure sanglante ou d’une contusion, soit d’un accident physiologique”.
What does plaie mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineopen wound
- 2
femininescourge
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of plage, beach
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lésion du corps provenant soit d’une blessure sanglante ou d’une contusion, soit d’un accident physiologique. 2. Lésion ou ouverture dans l’écorce des arbres. 3. Cicatrice. 4. Ce qui est très préjudiciable à un état, à une famille, à un particulier.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of plaie
- plaies plural
- plaïes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to plaie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plaie in French?
plaie appears 6.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).