plan d’eau
\plɑ̃ d‿o\
The verdict
“plan d’eau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étendue d’eau liquide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plan-d-eau · plan d’eau · French
plan d’eau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plan d’eau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɑ̃ d‿o\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plan d’eau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plan d’eau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɑ̃ d‿o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Étendue d’eau liquide.".
plan d’eau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists 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 plan d’eau, spelled P-L-A-N- -D-’-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Étendue d’eau liquide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plan d’eau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chemin d’exploitation légèrement en descente donne une image en plongée du site : deux grands plans d’eau entourés de terrains de sable, d’une grande roselière et d’une friche armée.
Bien que de nombreux amateurs tenteront leur chances par eux-mêmes et par leur propres moyens sur divers plans d’eau, il y a une bonne majorité de mordus qui préférera opter pour un endroit spécialisé dans ce domaine précis.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.