planchettes
\plɑ̃.ʃɛt\
The verdict
“planchettes” is uncommon French (frequency #93,101 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,101
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de planchette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-planchettes · planchettes · French
planchettes · rank #93,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,101
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaideur
Nearest frequency peer: plaideur (-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 « planchettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piétonniers
piétonniers
6,903 corpus weight
- plaideur
plaideur
6,901 corpus weight
- planchettes
planchettes
6,900 corpus weight
- plaquant
plaquant
6,899 corpus weight
- pointilleuse
pointilleuse
6,898 corpus weight
- portillons
portillons
6,897 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « planchettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | planchettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɑ̃.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #93,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « planchettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
planchettes is uncommon French at frequency #93,101 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɑ̃.ʃɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de planchette.".
planchettes has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is planchettes, spelled P-L-A-N-C-H-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de planchette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how planchettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut laisser quinze à vingt jours avant de désétaler un papillon. Il faut frotter ses planchettes chaque fois que l’on désétale avec du papier émerisé très-fin, pour faire disparaître les petits éclats de bois soulevés par les épingles et, passer ensuite du talc en poudre, pour faire glisser les ailes du papillon.
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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