planter
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,011
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
planter is aFrenchverb. It means: Fixer une plante en terre pour qu’elle prenne racine et qu’elle croisse. Pronounced \plɑ̃.te\. It ranks #8,011 in French word frequency. Often confused with plate and plates.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | planter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for planter is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɑ̃.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,011 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for planter, with forms such as "lpanter", "palnter", and "planetr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plate", "plates", "plants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is planter, spelled P-L-A-N-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fixer une plante en terre pour qu’elle prenne racine et qu’elle croisse.
- 2Garnir d’arbres.
- 3Planter des plantes.
- 4Mettre en terre avec la main, au lieu de semer des graines ou des grains par poignée, et aussi pour des bulbes.
- 5Enfoncer en terre en laissant paraître une partie en dehors.
- 6Enfoncer un objet pointu.
- 7Installer debout sur ses pieds.
- 8Poignarder.
- 9Disposer un décor sur la scène.
- 10Quitter, abandonner quelqu'un ou quelque chose, s'en séparer, ne vouloir plus en avoir affaire.
- 11Se faire battre, employé sous la forme se faire planter.
- 12Se dit d’un ordinateur ou d'un logiciel lorsqu’il rencontre une erreur le rendant inutilisable.
- 13Se tromper, ne pas réussir une épreuve, un travail, se perdre en cours de route…
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpanter,palnter,planetr,plannter,planterr,plantre,plantter,platner,pllanter,plnater,pplanter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for planter
Misspelling Variants of "planter"
Frequency rank: #8,011 in French
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