plais
\plɛ\
The verdict
“plais” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,865. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,865
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de plaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plais · plais · French
plais · rank #13,865 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,865
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pink
Nearest frequency peer: pink (-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 « plais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perturber
perturber
86,139 corpus weight
- piloter
piloter
86,138 corpus weight
- pink
pink
86,137 corpus weight
- plais
plais
86,136 corpus weight
- podcast
podcast
86,135 corpus weight
- positivement
positivement
86,134 corpus weight
What this shows « plais » 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 | plais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around plais (IPA \plɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,865 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for plais, with forms such as "lpais", "palis", and "plaiss". 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, "pli", "PLS", "plus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is plais, spelled P-L-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de plaire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de plaire.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de plaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si je plais à mon poète, s’il me plaît, le brillant édifice de notre amour sera bâti si haut, qu’il sera parfaitement inaccessible au malheur : je suis une aiglonne, et vous le verrez à mes yeux.
Je n’en dirai pas plus, il serait inélégant d’attaquer davantage un homme qui n’est plus là pour se défendre et dont je me plais pourtant à reconnaître qu’en faisant voter par le Parlement la loi transformant le métayage en fermage, il réussit à faire ce en quoi avaient échoué les trois premières républiques : déchouaniser le plus chouan de nos départements.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpais
- palis
- plaiss
- plasi
- plias
- pllais
- pplais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plais - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "plais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).