plaines
\plɛn\
The verdict
“plaines” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,365. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,365
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de plaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaines · plaines · French
plaines · rank #9,365 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,365
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pisse
Nearest frequency peer: Pisse (-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 « plaines »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- permettront
permettront
90,639 corpus weight
- phares
phares
90,638 corpus weight
- Pisse
Pisse
90,637 corpus weight
- plaines
plaines
90,636 corpus weight
- pourrons
pourrons
90,635 corpus weight
- propagation
propagation
90,634 corpus weight
What this shows « plaines » 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 | plaines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaines »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around plaines (IPA \plɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,365 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de plaine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaines, with forms such as "lpaines", "palines", and "plaiens". 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, "plans", "plane", "plais", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plaines, spelled P-L-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de plaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les lièvres de plaines ont les membres postérieurs très-longs, bien plus longs que les lièvres de montagne, or il est notoire que ces derniers sont moins vite forcés par les chiens que les lièvres des plaines.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaines
- palines
- plaiens
- plainess
- plainnes
- plainse
- planies
- plianes
- pllaines
- pplaines
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaines - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).