plaisais
\plɛ.zɛ\
The verdict
“plaisais” is uncommon French (frequency #66,999 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,999
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de plaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaisais · plaisais · French
plaisais · rank #66,999 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,999
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piétinement
Nearest frequency peer: piétinement (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « plaisais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pivert
pivert
33,004 corpus weight
- piétinement
piétinement
33,003 corpus weight
- plaisais
plaisais
33,002 corpus weight
- plaisantais
plaisantais
33,001 corpus weight
- plana
plana
33,000 corpus weight
- plisse
plisse
32,999 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plaisais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaisais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛ.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plaisais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plaisais is uncommon French at frequency #66,999 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \plɛ.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
plaisais has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 plaisais, spelled P-L-A-I-S-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de plaire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de plaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaisais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peut-être me plaisais-je à baigner ainsi dans le doute et le cafard, traînant, esseulé, ma mélancolie sur le campus alourdi par la neige.
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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