plane
\plan\
The verdict
“plane” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,835. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,835
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Platane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plane · plane · French
plane · rank #12,835 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,835
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pivot
Nearest frequency peer: pivot (-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 « plane »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pentes
pentes
87,169 corpus weight
- pick
pick
87,168 corpus weight
- pivot
pivot
87,167 corpus weight
- plane
plane
87,166 corpus weight
- poêle
poêle
87,164 corpus weight
- prairie
prairie
87,163 corpus weight
What this shows « plane » 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 | plane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plane »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around plane (IPA \plan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,835 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for plane, with forms such as "lpane", "palne", and "plaen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plat", "play", "plie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is plane, spelled P-L-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Platane.
- 2Espèce d’érable, aussi appelé érable platane, Acer platanoides.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpane
- palne
- plaen
- planne
- pllane
- plnae
- pplane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plane - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plane", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).