planche volante

/\plɑ̃ʃ vo.lɑ̃t\/ noun

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15 characters

Language

French

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planche volante is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble constitué d’une planche nautique munie de fixations pour les pieds, d’un harnais de traction fixé au corps, de suspentes et d’une voile dérivée du cerf-volant, conçu pour permettre d’évolu... Pronounced \plɑ̃ʃ vo.lɑ̃t\.

Key facts for planche volante
PropertyValue
Headwordplanche volante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\plɑ̃ʃ vo.lɑ̃t\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

planche volante is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for planche volante is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɑ̃ʃ vo.lɑ̃t\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for planche volante in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 volante, spelled P-L-A-N-C-H-E- -V-O-L-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble constitué d’une planche nautique munie de fixations pour les pieds, d’un harnais de traction fixé au corps, de suspentes et d’une voile dérivée du cerf-volant, conçu pour permettre d’évoluer en faisant des bonds acrobatiques au-dessus des vagues.
  2. 2
    Pratique de ce sport.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "planche volante"?
"planche volante" is spelled P-L-A-N-C-H-E- -V-O-L-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plɑ̃ʃ vo.lɑ̃t\.
What does "planche volante" mean?
As a noun, "planche volante" means: Ensemble constitué d’une planche nautique munie de fixations pour les pieds, d’un harnais de traction fixé au corps, de suspentes et d’une voile dérivée du cerf-volant, conçu pour permettre d’évolu...
How do you pronounce "planche volante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "planche volante" is \plɑ̃ʃ vo.lɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.