planchette à pince
\plɑ̃.ʃɛ.t‿a pɛ̃s\
The verdict
“planchette à pince” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Planchette munie d’une pince à ressort sous laquelle on insère habituellement des feuilles pour prendre des notes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-planchette-a-pince · planchette à pince · French
planchette à pince · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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planchette à pince is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɑ̃.ʃɛ.t‿a pɛ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.