planchette à pince
\plɑ̃.ʃɛ.t‿a pɛ̃s\
The verdict
“planchette à pince” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Planchette munie d’une pince à ressort sous laquelle on insère habituellement des feuilles pour prendre des notes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | planchette à pince |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɑ̃.ʃɛ.t‿a pɛ̃s\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “planchette à pince” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for planchette à pince is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɑ̃.ʃɛ.t‿a pɛ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Planchette munie d’une pince à ressort sous laquelle on insère habituellement des feuilles pour prendre des notes.".
planchette à pince doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is planchette à pince, spelled P-L-A-N-C-H-E-T-T-E- -À- -P-I-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Planchette munie d’une pince à ressort sous laquelle on insère habituellement des feuilles pour prendre des notes.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-L-A-N-C-H-E-T-T-E- -À- -P-I-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.