planchent
\plɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“planchent” is uncommon French (frequency #90,035 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,035
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de plancher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-planchent · planchent · French
planchent · rank #90,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,035
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planton
Nearest frequency peer: planton (+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 « planchent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pinéale
pinéale
9,969 corpus weight
- pisan
pisan
9,968 corpus weight
- planchent
planchent
9,966 corpus weight
- planton
planton
9,965 corpus weight
- pliait
pliait
9,964 corpus weight
- plissement
plissement
9,963 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « planchent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | planchent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « planchent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
planchent is uncommon French at frequency #90,035 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \plɑ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for planchent, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is planchent, spelled P-L-A-N-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de plancher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de plancher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how planchent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parce qu’ils avaient envie de mettre dans la lumière des personnages découverts au cours de leurs longues recherches, les auteurs planchent également sur deux séries, produites par Pathé, Dimitri Rassam, Disney et dont ils seront les showrunners : une sur la genèse de Milady, l’autre sur le premier mousquetaire noir de l’histoire de France.
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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