plantait

\plɑ̃.tɛ\

/\plɑ̃.tɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for plantait
PropertyValue
Headwordplantait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\plɑ̃.tɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#55,509
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « plantait » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).plantaittombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « pissenlit » (#55,508), « plantureuse » (#55,510), « pipette » (#55,507). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « plantait » est au #55,509. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de planter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plantait"?
"plantait" is spelled P-L-A-N-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \plɑ̃.tɛ\.
What does "plantait" mean?
As a verb, "plantait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de planter.
How do you pronounce "plantait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plantait" is \plɑ̃.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plantait" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plantait", 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