plaindre
\plɛ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“plaindre” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,267. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,267
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prendre en pitié les maux d’autrui, en être touché, témoigner la compassion que l’on éprouve pour quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaindre · plaindre · French
plaindre · rank #4,267 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,267
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH photographe
Nearest frequency peer: photographe (-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 « plaindre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- passagers
passagers
95,737 corpus weight
- passera
passera
95,736 corpus weight
- photographe
photographe
95,735 corpus weight
- plaindre
plaindre
95,734 corpus weight
- poitrine
poitrine
95,733 corpus weight
- poudre
poudre
95,732 corpus weight
What this shows « plaindre » 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 | plaindre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaindre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around plaindre (IPA \plɛ̃dʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,267 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaindre, with forms such as "lpaindre", "palindre", and "plaidnre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "plaire", "plaine", "plainte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 plaindre, spelled P-L-A-I-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Prendre en pitié les maux d’autrui, en être touché, témoigner la compassion que l’on éprouve pour quelqu’un.
- 2Employer, donner avec répugnance, à regret, d’une manière insuffisante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plaindre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vraiment, par expérience, je plains le jeune prêtre que l’on envoie, pour ses débuts, évangéliser la Beauce.
Que je le plains, pécheur, en ton heure dernière ! Les maux les plus affreux sont amassés sur toi; Le noir enfer, séjour rempli d'effroi, T’attend au bout de la carrière.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaindre
- palindre
- plaidnre
- plainddre
- plainder
- plaindrre
- plainndre
- plainrde
- planidre
- pliandre
- pllaindre
- pplaindre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaindre - 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 "plaindre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).