plancha
\plɑ̃.ʃa\
The verdict
“plancha” is uncommon French (frequency #66,228 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,228
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plaque de cuisson lisse, en pierre ou en métal, permettant de saisir des aliments à plus de 270°C.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plancha · plancha · French
plancha · rank #66,228 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,228
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plantin
Nearest frequency peer: plantin (+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 « plancha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piquantes
piquantes
33,777 corpus weight
- pixies
pixies
33,775 corpus weight
- plancha
plancha
33,773 corpus weight
- plantin
plantin
33,772 corpus weight
- pleureur
pleureur
33,771 corpus weight
- plinthe
plinthe
33,770 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plancha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plancha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɑ̃.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plancha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plancha is uncommon French at frequency #66,228 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɑ̃.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for plancha, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is plancha, spelled P-L-A-N-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Plaque de cuisson lisse, en pierre ou en métal, permettant de saisir des aliments à plus de 270°C.
- 2Ce mode de cuisson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plancha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tradition venue d’Espagne, la cuisine à la plancha présente de nombreux avantages.
This word in other languages
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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