plan
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#391
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
plan is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est uni, plat, qui ne présente ni courbure ni ondulation. Pronounced \plɑ̃\. It ranks #391 in French word frequency. Often confused with PN and plu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \plɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plan is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #391 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for plan, with forms such as "lpan", "paln", and "plann". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PN", "plu", "psa", 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 plan, spelled P-L-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est uni, plat, qui ne présente ni courbure ni ondulation.
- 2Qui possède une surface lisse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpan,paln,plann,pllan,plna,pplan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plan
Misspelling Variants of "plan"
Frequency rank: #391 in French
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