plancheur
\plɑ̃.ʃœʁ\
The verdict
“plancheur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officier qui a pour charge, sur les ports de Paris, de mettre des planches de la rive au bateau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plancheur · plancheur · French
plancheur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | plancheur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɑ̃.ʃœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plancheur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plancheur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɑ̃.ʃœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Officier qui a pour charge, sur les ports de Paris, de mettre des planches de la rive au bateau.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for plancheur, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is plancheur, spelled P-L-A-N-C-H-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Officier qui a pour charge, sur les ports de Paris, de mettre des planches de la rive au bateau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plancheur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lesdits mesureurs…plancheurs, boueurs …seront tenus… de représenter leurs lettres de provision.
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.