plaisantait
\plɛ.zɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“plaisantait” is uncommon French (frequency #59,535 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,535
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plaisanter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaisantait · plaisantait · French
plaisantait · rank #59,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,535
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaignantes
Nearest frequency peer: plaignantes (-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 « plaisantait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Phocéens
Phocéens
40,469 corpus weight
- phytothérap…
phytothérapie
40,468 corpus weight
- plaignantes
plaignantes
40,467 corpus weight
- plaisantait
plaisantait
40,466 corpus weight
- plaisants
plaisants
40,465 corpus weight
- planifient
planifient
40,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plaisantait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaisantait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛ.zɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plaisantait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plaisantait is uncommon French at frequency #59,535 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \plɛ.zɑ̃.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plaisanter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for plaisantait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is plaisantait, spelled P-L-A-I-S-A-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plaisanter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaisantait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce dernier, bien que spécialisé dans le travail manuel, avait gambergé très vite sachant qu’Alvaro ne plaisantait jamais quand il sortait son soufflant, et qu’un macchabée, même coincé dans un vasistas, ça ne cause plus bezef…
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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