plaignant
\plɛ.ɲɑ̃\
The verdict
“plaignant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,367. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,367
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se plaint en justice de quelque tort qu’on lui a fait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaignant · plaignant · French
plaignant · rank #19,367 · 14 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,367
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pinot
Nearest frequency peer: pinot (-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 « plaignant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- peintes
peintes
80,637 corpus weight
- perçoivent
perçoivent
80,636 corpus weight
- pinot
pinot
80,635 corpus weight
- plaignant
plaignant
80,634 corpus weight
- planer
planer
80,633 corpus weight
- pleurait
pleurait
80,632 corpus weight
What this shows « plaignant » 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 | plaignant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \plɛ.ɲɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaignant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around plaignant (IPA \plɛ.ɲɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,367 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui se plaint en justice de quelque tort qu’on lui a fait.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaignant, with forms such as "lpaignant", "palignant", and "plaginant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "planant", "plaisant", "poignant", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is plaignant, spelled P-L-A-I-G-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui se plaint en justice de quelque tort qu’on lui a fait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaignant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La partie plaignante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaignant
- palignant
- plaginant
- plaigannt
- plaiggnant
- plaignannt
- plaignantt
- plaignatn
- plaignnant
- plaignnat
- plaingant
- pliagnant
- pllaignant
- pplaignant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaignant - 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 "plaignant", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).