plaira
\plɛ.ʁa\
The verdict
“plaira” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,444. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,444
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur de plaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaira · plaira · French
plaira · rank #12,444 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,444
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH placements
Nearest frequency peer: placements (-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 « plaira »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pics
pics
87,560 corpus weight
- pigeons
pigeons
87,559 corpus weight
- placements
placements
87,558 corpus weight
- plaira
plaira
87,557 corpus weight
- plâtre
plâtre
87,556 corpus weight
- pol
pol
87,555 corpus weight
What this shows « plaira » 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 | plaira |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaira »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around plaira (IPA \plɛ.ʁa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,444 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de plaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaira, with forms such as "lpaira", "palira", and "plaiar". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plait", "plais", "plaza", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is plaira, spelled P-L-A-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du futur de plaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En juin 1890, dans une lettre à Pierre Louys, Valéry déclare avoir lu tout Verlaine hors La Bonne Chanson et, refusant de s’intituler « esthète » ou « symboliste » comme étiquette trop trop précise ou trop étroite, affirme son désir, quand il lui plaira, d’être décadent et de « verlainiser », ce qui pour lui équivaut alors à « oublier la rime, le rythme,…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaira
- palira
- plaiar
- plairra
- plaria
- pliara
- pllaira
- pplaira
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaira - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).