plantain
\plɑ̃.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“plantain” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,519. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,519
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel donné aux plantes du genre Plantago, dont de nombreuses espèces sont très communes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plantain · plantain · French
plantain · rank #47,519 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,519
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planant
Nearest frequency peer: planant (-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 « plantain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pigmentation
pigmentation
52,485 corpus weight
- pinson
pinson
52,484 corpus weight
- planant
planant
52,483 corpus weight
- plantain
plantain
52,482 corpus weight
- popotin
popotin
52,481 corpus weight
- portillon
portillon
52,480 corpus weight
What this shows « plantain » 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 | plantain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɑ̃.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plantain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around plantain (IPA \plɑ̃.tɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,519 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for plantain, with forms such as "lpantain", "palntain", and "planatin". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "plantant", "plantaire", "plantation", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is plantain, spelled P-L-A-N-T-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel donné aux plantes du genre Plantago, dont de nombreuses espèces sont très communes.
- 2Nom donné à diverses plantes aquatiques par ressemblance avec le "véritable plantain"'. → voir alisme
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plantain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plantain aquatique ou plantain d’eau.
Elle ne savait plus pourquoi l’idée lui était venue d’aller passer un mois chez miss Bell. Et vraiment elle ne l’avait jamais bien su. C’était comme une source d’abord cachée par quelques brins de plantain, qui, maintenant, formait le courant d’une eau profonde et rapide.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpantain
- palntain
- planatin
- planntain
- plantainn
- plantani
- plantian
- planttain
- platnain
- pllantain
- plnatain
- pplantain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plantain - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plantain", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).