plantage

\plɑ̃.taʒ\

/\plɑ̃.taʒ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plantage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for plantage
PropertyValue
Headwordplantage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\plɑ̃.taʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#64,003
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « plantage » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.plantagetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « plaisanté » (#64,002), « plaquages » (#64,004), « plaidait » (#64,001). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « plantage » est au #64,003. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Action de planter, plantation pour la canne à sucre, le tabac etc….
  2. 2
    Façon dont on dispose les végétaux dans un jardin, un parc.
  3. 3
    Jardin potager.
  4. 4
    Dans une corderie, charpente élevée sur le sol pour porter les manivelles qui servent à tordre les cordes.
  5. 5
    Crash, interruption anormale et inattendue d’un logiciel, simple application ou système d’exploitation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how plantage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les plantages ont été ruinés par les ouragans.
  2. 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.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plantage"?
"plantage" is spelled P-L-A-N-T-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plɑ̃.taʒ\.
What does "plantage" mean?
As a noun, "plantage" means: Action de planter, plantation pour la canne à sucre, le tabac etc….
How do you pronounce "plantage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plantage" is \plɑ̃.taʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plantage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list