planche
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,379
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
planche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ais, pièce de bois refendu, ayant peu d’épaisseur. Pronounced \plɑ̃ʃ\. It ranks #5,379 in French word frequency. Often confused with plane and plante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | planche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for planche is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɑ̃ʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,379 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for planche, with forms such as "lpanche", "palnche", and "placnhe". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "plane", "plante", "Planck", 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 planche, spelled P-L-A-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ais, pièce de bois refendu, ayant peu d’épaisseur.
- 2Illustration sur un même sujet occupant dans un livre ou un dictionnaire la plus grande partie ou la totalité d'une page.
- 3Sorte de nage immobile où l’on flotte étendu sur le dos, sans mouvement.
- 4Morceau de bois plat ou plaque de métal sur lesquels on grave un dessin ou de la musique.
- 5L’estampe tirée sur cette plaque gravée.
- 6Semis ou plate-bande, plus long que large, que l’on cultive pour y faire venir des fleurs, des légumes, des herbages.
- 7Fer de forme particulière que l’on ajuste au pied des mulets.
- 8Personne plate et maigre.
- 9Travail écrit présenté en loge.
- 10Scène sur laquelle paraissent les acteurs.
- 11Planche à roulettes.
- 12Bande de terre labourée afin de former régulièrement, sur le terrain, des dérayures et des ados qui en favorisent le drainage.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpanche,palnche,placnhe,plancche,planceh,planchhe,planhce,plannche,pllanche,plnache,pplanche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for planche
Misspelling Variants of "planche"
Frequency rank: #5,379 in French
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