planer
\pla.ne\
The verdict
“planer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,368. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,368
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se soutenir en l’air, les ailes étendues et immobiles, en parlant des oiseaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-planer · planer · French
planer · rank #19,368 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,368
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaignant
Nearest frequency peer: plaignant (-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 « planer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perçoivent
perçoivent
80,636 corpus weight
- pinot
pinot
80,635 corpus weight
- plaignant
plaignant
80,634 corpus weight
- planer
planer
80,633 corpus weight
- pleurait
pleurait
80,632 corpus weight
- pluralité
pluralité
80,631 corpus weight
What this shows « planer » 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 | planer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pla.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « planer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around planer (IPA \pla.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,368 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for planer, with forms such as "lpaner", "palner", and "plaenr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plans", "plate", "plier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is planer, spelled P-L-A-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se soutenir en l’air, les ailes étendues et immobiles, en parlant des oiseaux.
- 2Se soutenir sur les plans horizontaux, le moteur arrêté, en parlant d’un avion.
- 3Dominer du regard, surplomber.
- 4Dominer.
- 5Rêver, être perdu dans ses pensées, ne pas être en phase avec la réalité.
- 6Être sous l'influence de la drogue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how planer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A de grandes altitudes planaient les frégates et les phaétons, qui tombaient souvent avec une rapidité vertigineuse pour arracher en l'air leur proie aux oiseaux de mer plongeurs.
En haut, des milans planaient au-dessus des arbres et franchissaient l'étendue lisse du Nil.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaner
- palner
- plaenr
- planerr
- planner
- planre
- pllaner
- plnaer
- pplaner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of planer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).