plaisanter
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,184
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
plaisanter is aFrenchverb. It means: Badiner, dire ou faire quelque chose pour amuser, pour faire rire les autres. Pronounced \plɛ.zɑ̃.te\. Often confused with plaisantes and plaisanterie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaisanter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛ.zɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plaisanter is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɛ.zɑ̃.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,184 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for plaisanter, with forms such as "lpaisanter", "palisanter", and "plaiasnter". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "plaisantes", "plaisanterie", "plaisant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is plaisanter, spelled P-L-A-I-S-A-N-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Badiner, dire ou faire quelque chose pour amuser, pour faire rire les autres.
- 2Accepter les concessions, le compromis.
- 3Manquer de sérieux ou de rigueur.
- 4Parler (de quelque chose) de manière humoristique, ironique, plaisante sans volonté de blesser.
- 5Se moquer (de quelque chose), railler (quelque chose), de manière plus ou moins blessante.
- 6Prendre à la légère, négliger (quelque chose).
- 7Manquer de respect (vis-à-vis de quelque chose)
- 8Se moquer, railler
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpaisanter,palisanter,plaiasnter,plaisanetr,plaisannter,plaisanterr,plaisantre,plaisantter,plaisatner,plaisnater,plaissanter,plasianter,pliasanter,pllaisanter,pplaisanter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plaisanter
Misspelling Variants of "plaisanter"
Frequency rank: #31,184 in French
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