plantait
\plɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“plantait” is uncommon French (frequency #55,509 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,509
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de planter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plantait · plantait · French
plantait · rank #55,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,509
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pissenlit
Nearest frequency peer: pissenlit (-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 « plantait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pika
pika
44,495 corpus weight
- pipette
pipette
44,494 corpus weight
- pissenlit
pissenlit
44,493 corpus weight
- plantait
plantait
44,492 corpus weight
- plantureuse
plantureuse
44,491 corpus weight
- plaçons
plaçons
44,490 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plantait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plantait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plantait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plantait is uncommon French at frequency #55,509 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \plɑ̃.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de planter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for plantait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is plantait, spelled P-L-A-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de planter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plantait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dépassé en fin de partie à Gloucester la semaine dernière (photo), l’UBB aura fort à faire face à une équipe sud-africaine qui, pendant ce temps-là, plantait cinq essais aux Harlequins.
On raconte, depuis l’époque des fabliaux, une bien belle histoire sur cette veuve inconsolable qui se plantait des échardes dans les chairs en souvenir d’un feu mari cul-de-jatte et de son vivant portant jambes de bois.
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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