plane
French, noun
plane is spelled P-L-A-N-E (5 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plane is a French masculine noun meaning “A plane tree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of plan. With an accent, plané is a different word: “past participle of planer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Platane”.
What does plane mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineA plane tree
noun
- 1
feminineA plane (tool).
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of plan
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of planer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Platane. 2. Espèce d’érable, aussi appelé érable platane, Acer platanoides.
noun: 1. Outil tranchant constitué d’une lame montée entre deux poignées utilisé par les menuisiers, les tonneliers, les sabotiers,… pour tailler en forme et aplanir (planer, dresser avec la plane). 2. Ciseau de tourneur.
noun: 1. Mince lamelle d’or obtenue par laminage et destinée à recouvrir (à doubler), des objets en cuivre, laiton, etc.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of plane
- planes plural
- planée feminine
- planés masculine plural
- planées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is plane in French?
plane appears 4.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).