planait
\pla.nɛ\
The verdict
“planait” is uncommon French (frequency #52,903 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,903
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de planer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-planait · planait · French
planait · rank #52,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,903
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Plamondon
Nearest frequency peer: Plamondon (-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 « planait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- placerait
placerait
47,101 corpus weight
- plaisantant
plaisantant
47,100 corpus weight
- Plamondon
Plamondon
47,099 corpus weight
- planait
planait
47,098 corpus weight
- plannings
plannings
47,097 corpus weight
- PLM
PLM
47,096 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « planait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | planait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pla.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « planait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
planait is uncommon French at frequency #52,903 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pla.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de planer.".
planait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is planait, spelled P-L-A-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de planer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how planait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elles se craquelaient dangereusement, et tout le temps que je restai là je craignis qu’un morceau de fesse de la divinité aussi callipyge que mythologique qui planait sur nos têtes ne tombât dans mon apéro en guise de zeste supplémentaire.
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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