plana
\pla.na\
The verdict
“plana” is uncommon French (frequency #67,001 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,001
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de planer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plana · plana · French
plana · rank #67,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,001
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaisantais
Nearest frequency peer: plaisantais (-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 « plana »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piétinement
piétinement
33,003 corpus weight
- plaisais
plaisais
33,002 corpus weight
- plaisantais
plaisantais
33,001 corpus weight
- plana
plana
33,000 corpus weight
- plisse
plisse
32,999 corpus weight
- plombent
plombent
32,998 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plana » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pla.na\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plana » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plana is uncommon French at frequency #67,001 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pla.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de planer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for plana in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is plana, spelled P-L-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de planer.
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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