plaisantins
\plɛ.zɑ̃.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“plaisantins” is uncommon French (frequency #97,287 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,287
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de plaisantin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaisantins · plaisantins · French
plaisantins · rank #97,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,287
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaindront
Nearest frequency peer: plaindront (-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 « plaisantins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pisteurs
pisteurs
2,717 corpus weight
- plaindront
plaindront
2,715 corpus weight
- plaisantins
plaisantins
2,714 corpus weight
- planus
planus
2,713 corpus weight
- pleuvaient
pleuvaient
2,712 corpus weight
- pliables
pliables
2,711 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plaisantins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaisantins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɛ.zɑ̃.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #97,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plaisantins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plaisantins is uncommon French at frequency #97,287 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɛ.zɑ̃.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de plaisantin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for plaisantins in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is plaisantins, spelled P-L-A-I-S-A-N-T-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de plaisantin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaisantins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les plaisantins disent qu’on peut avoir l’une ou l’autre , mais pas les deux en même temps !
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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