planète
\pla.nɛt\
The verdict
“planète” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,492. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,492
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corps céleste plutôt sphérique plus gros qu’un astéroïde, ne produisant pas de lumière propre, en orbite autour d’une ou plusieurs étoiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-planete · planète · French
planète · rank #1,492 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,492
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH québécois
Nearest frequency peer: québécois (+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 « planète »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- participer
participer
98,512 corpus weight
- personnage
personnage
98,511 corpus weight
- planète
planète
98,509 corpus weight
- québécois
québécois
98,508 corpus weight
- retard
retard
98,507 corpus weight
- savent
savent
98,506 corpus weight
What this shows « planète » 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 | planète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pla.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « planète »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around planète (IPA \pla.nɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,492 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for planète, with forms such as "lpanète", "palnète", and "planete". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "plate", "plant", "plante", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is planète, spelled P-L-A-N-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Corps céleste plutôt sphérique plus gros qu’un astéroïde, ne produisant pas de lumière propre, en orbite autour d’une ou plusieurs étoiles.
- 2Terre.
- 3Corps céleste plus petit dans le Système solaire en orbite autour du Soleil.
- 4Sort, chance (attribués à une planète en astrologie).
- 5Ensemble des personnes passionnées par un certain domaine.
- 6Chasuble d’officiant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how planète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En un mot, il n'y avait pas de Zodiaque égyptien; et on le conçoit aisément, puisque les Égyptiens, peu curieux de suivre la marche des planètes, ne se préoccupaient pas de leur route oblique et avaient adopté une année réglée sur le lever des constellations équatoriales.
Quelles sont les similitudes et les différences entre les planètes telluriques, et quelle en est l’origine ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpanète
- palnète
- planete
- plannète
- plantèe
- planèet
- planètte
- plaènte
- pllanète
- plnaète
- pplanète
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of planète - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).