plancher
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,353
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
plancher is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ouvrage de charpente fait d’un assemblage de solives, recouvert de planches formant plate-forme sur l’aire d’un rez-de-chaussée, ou séparant deux étages d’un bâtiment. Pronounced \plɑ̃.ʃe\. It ranks #7,353 in French word frequency. Often confused with planer and planter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plancher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɑ̃.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plancher is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɑ̃.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,353 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for plancher, with forms such as "lpancher", "palncher", and "placnher". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "planer", "planter", "planches", 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 plancher, spelled P-L-A-N-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ouvrage de charpente fait d’un assemblage de solives, recouvert de planches formant plate-forme sur l’aire d’un rez-de-chaussée, ou séparant deux étages d’un bâtiment.
- 2Le plancher d’en bas sur lequel on marche.
- 3Le plancher supérieur, le plafond.
- 4Seuil.
- 5Horizon inférieur, de perméabilité nettement plus faible que les horizons au-dessus de lui, tendant à s’opposer à l’infiltration de l’eau dans le sol.
- 6Trait inférieur d’un cran de chute.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpancher,palncher,placnher,planccher,plancehr,plancherr,planchher,planchre,planhcer,planncher,pllancher,plnacher,pplancher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plancher
Misspelling Variants of "plancher"
Frequency rank: #7,353 in French
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