plaquage

\pla.kaʒ\

/\pla.kaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“plaquage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,607. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#43,607
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de plaquer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-plaquage · plaquage · French

plaquage · rank #43,607 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,607
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plantent

Nearest frequency peer: plantent (-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 « plaquage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « plaquage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

plaquage vs plaqué
63% similar
plaquage vs plaquée
75% similar
plaquage vs placage
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for plaquage
PropertyValue
Headwordplaquage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pla.kaʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#43,607
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaquage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).plaquagese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plantent » (#43,606), « piémontais » (#43,605), « Pontarlier » (#43,609). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « plaquage » est au #43,607. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around plaquage (IPA \pla.kaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,607 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaquage, with forms such as "lpaquage", "palquage", and "plaqauge". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "plaqué", "plaquée", "placage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plaquage, spelled P-L-A-Q-U-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de plaquer.
  2. 2
    Application d’une mince couche régulière d’un métal généralement précieux ou d'un alliage.
  3. 3
    Résultat de cette action, la couche de métal, de bois, etc. en elle même.
  4. 4
    Action de faire tomber le porteur du ballon. Le joueur plaqué est ainsi tenu au sol.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Une usine de plaquage des bois s'est installée dans l'arrondissement de Montbéliard, à Saint-Maurice.
  2. En Chine, l'effondrement d'une usine de plaquage de métaux a fait plus de cent morts dans la province de Zhejiang.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • lpaquage
  • palquage
  • plaqauge
  • plaqquage
  • plaquaeg
  • plaquagge
  • plaqugae
  • plauqage
  • pllaquage
  • plqauage
  • pplaquage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaquage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

lpaquage2palquage2plaqauge2plaqquage1plaquaeg2plaquagge1plaqugae2plauqage2
Edit distance from "plaquage"

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 "plaquage"?
"plaquage" is spelled P-L-A-Q-U-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pla.kaʒ\.
What does "plaquage" mean?
As a noun, "plaquage" means: Action de plaquer.
What words are commonly confused with "plaquage"?
"plaquage" is commonly confused with "plaqué", "plaquée", "placage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "plaquage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plaquage" is \pla.kaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plaquage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plaquage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

plantent#43,606pilleurs#43,601passives#43,591parlante#43,588

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

prisées11 variantsprêches11 variantsmicrons11 variantsSigmund11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list