plancton
\plɑ̃k.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“plancton” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,068. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,068
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble d’organismes aquatiques microscopiques ou macroscopiques, généralement incapables de résister aux courants et dérivant dans les mers ou les eaux douces ; il comprend le phytoplancton, le z...
Corpus desk
Index FR-plancton · plancton · French
plancton · rank #43,068 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #43,068
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piétonnes
Nearest frequency peer: piétonnes (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « plancton »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pictural
pictural
56,936 corpus weight
- pistache
pistache
56,935 corpus weight
- piétonnes
piétonnes
56,934 corpus weight
- plancton
plancton
56,933 corpus weight
- plaquée
plaquée
56,932 corpus weight
- platane
platane
56,931 corpus weight
What this shows « plancton » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plancton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɑ̃k.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plancton »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around plancton (IPA \plɑ̃k.tɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,068 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble d’organismes aquatiques microscopiques ou macroscopiques, généralement incapables de résister aux courants et dérivant dans les mers ou les eaux douces ; il comprend le phytoplancton, le z...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for plancton, with forms such as "lpancton", "palncton", and "placnton". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Platon", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is plancton, spelled P-L-A-N-C-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ensemble d’organismes aquatiques microscopiques ou macroscopiques, généralement incapables de résister aux courants et dérivant dans les mers ou les eaux douces ; il comprend le phytoplancton, le zooplancton, ainsi que des bactéries et des virus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plancton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ensemble des êtres océaniques, animaux et végétaux, se classe en trois grandes catégories : le Benthos, le Nekton et le Plankton.
La répartition géographique des planctons, dont la connaissance est si utile aux pêcheries, conditionne la présence des dépôts sous-marins comme ces boues à Diatomées origine du tripoli.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpancton
- palncton
- placnton
- planccton
- plancotn
- planctno
- planctonn
- planctton
- planncton
- plantcon
- pllancton
- plnacton
- pplancton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plancton - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).