plantage
\plɑ̃.taʒ\
The verdict
“plantage” is uncommon French (frequency #64,003 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,003
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de planter, plantation pour la canne à sucre, le tabac etc….
Corpus desk
Index FR-plantage · plantage · French
plantage · rank #64,003 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,003
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaisanté
Nearest frequency peer: plaisanté (-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 « plantage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pivoines
pivoines
36,001 corpus weight
- plaidait
plaidait
36,000 corpus weight
- plaisanté
plaisanté
35,999 corpus weight
- plantage
plantage
35,998 corpus weight
- plaquages
plaquages
35,997 corpus weight
- plo
plo
35,996 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plantage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plantage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɑ̃.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plantage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plantage is uncommon French at frequency #64,003 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɑ̃.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for plantage, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plantage, spelled P-L-A-N-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de planter, plantation pour la canne à sucre, le tabac etc….
- 2Façon dont on dispose les végétaux dans un jardin, un parc.
- 3Jardin potager.
- 4Dans une corderie, charpente élevée sur le sol pour porter les manivelles qui servent à tordre les cordes.
- 5Crash, interruption anormale et inattendue d’un logiciel, simple application ou système d’exploitation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plantage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les plantages ont été ruinés par les ouragans.
Le jardin peut donc tout aussi bien nous charmer par sa disposition naturelle que par l'art de son dessin et celui du plantage des arbustes.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).