plano
\ˈpla.no\
The verdict
“plano” is uncommon French (frequency #84,176 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,176
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de llano.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plano · plano · French
plano · rank #84,176 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,176
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Ploemeur
Nearest frequency peer: Ploemeur (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « plano »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pigs
pigs
15,830 corpus weight
- pistol
pistol
15,829 corpus weight
- piétinant
piétinant
15,828 corpus weight
- plano
plano
15,825 corpus weight
- Ploemeur
Ploemeur
15,824 corpus weight
- poitevins
poitevins
15,821 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plano » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plano |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈpla.no\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plano » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plano is uncommon French at frequency #84,176 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈpla.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de llano.".
plano has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is plano, spelled P-L-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Variante de llano.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plano appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un terreno plano.
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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