plaisent
\plɛz\
The verdict
“plaisent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,660. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,660
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de plaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaisent · plaisent · French
plaisent · rank #13,660 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,660
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaisait
Nearest frequency peer: plaisait (-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 « plaisent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pitt
Pitt
86,344 corpus weight
- pizzas
pizzas
86,343 corpus weight
- plaisait
plaisait
86,342 corpus weight
- plaisent
plaisent
86,341 corpus weight
- plasma
plasma
86,340 corpus weight
- plaçant
plaçant
86,339 corpus weight
What this shows « plaisent » 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 | plaisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaisent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around plaisent (IPA \plɛz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,660 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaisent, with forms such as "lpaisent", "palisent", and "plaiesnt". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "plient", "puisent", "plaisez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is plaisent, spelled P-L-A-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de plaire.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de plaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaisent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les odeurs forestières, senteurs adorées par les âmes friandes de poésie à qui plaisent les mousses les plus innocentes, les cryptogames les plus vénéneux, les terres mouillées, les saules, les baumes, le serpolet, les eaux vertes d’une mare, l’étoile arrondie des nénuphars jaunes ; toutes ces vigoureuses fécondations se livrent à vos narines en vous livr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaisent
- palisent
- plaiesnt
- plaisennt
- plaisentt
- plaisetn
- plaisnet
- plaissent
- plasient
- pliasent
- pllaisent
- pplaisent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaisent - 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 "plaisent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).