plaisants
\plɛ.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“plaisants” is uncommon French (frequency #59,536 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,536
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de plaisant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaisants · plaisants · French
plaisants · rank #59,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,536
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaisantait
Nearest frequency peer: plaisantait (-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 « plaisants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- plasturgie
plasturgie
40,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plaisants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaisants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \plɛ.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plaisants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plaisants is uncommon French at frequency #59,536 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \plɛ.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de plaisant.".
plaisants doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is plaisants, spelled P-L-A-I-S-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de plaisant.
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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