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plante

French, noun

plante is spelled P-L-A-N-T-E (6 letters) and appears 25 times per million words in written French, the 3,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plante is a French feminine noun meaning “sole of the foot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of planter. With an accent, planté is a different word: “past participle of planter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Végétal”.

What does plante mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininesole of the foot

noun

  1. 1

    feminineplant

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as planté
  1. 1

    past participle of planter

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Végétal. 2. Nom général sous lequel on comprend tous les végétaux, organismes vivants du royaume Plantae, c’est-à-dire les eucaryotes qui possèdent du chloroplaste dans ses cellules. 3. Végétal non ligneux ; herbe. 4. Plante médicinale.

adjective: 1. S’emploie dans diverses expressions et locutions. 2. Se dit d'un ou plusieurs arbres qui sont posés sur une pièce ou un meuble. Peut également se dire d’une pièce ou meuble sur lequel est posé un ou plusieurs arbres. 3. Se dit d’un meuble composé présentant des arbres d'un émail différent de celui du meuble.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of plante

  • plantes plural
  • plantée feminine
  • plantés masculine plural
  • plantées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to plante

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is plante in French?

plante appears 25 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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