plaise
\plɛz\
The verdict
“plaise” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,217. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,217
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de plaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaise · plaise · French
plaise · rank #12,217 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,217
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH porcs
Nearest frequency peer: porcs (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaise »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- patate
patate
87,788 corpus weight
- perçue
perçue
87,787 corpus weight
- plaise
plaise
87,784 corpus weight
- porcs
porcs
87,783 corpus weight
- potentielle
potentielle
87,782 corpus weight
- pourrie
pourrie
87,781 corpus weight
What this shows « plaise » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaise »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around plaise (IPA \plɛz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,217 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaise, with forms such as "lpaise", "palise", and "plaisse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plis", "plie", "prise", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 plaise, spelled P-L-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de plaire.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de plaire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaise
- palise
- plaisse
- plasie
- pliase
- pllaise
- pplaise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaise - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plaise", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).