plaquant
\pla.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“plaquant” is uncommon French (frequency #93,102 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,102
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de plaquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaquant · plaquant · French
plaquant · rank #93,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,102
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planchettes
Nearest frequency peer: planchettes (-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 « plaquant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piétonniers
piétonniers
6,903 corpus weight
- plaideur
plaideur
6,901 corpus weight
- planchettes
planchettes
6,900 corpus weight
- plaquant
plaquant
6,899 corpus weight
- pointilleuse
pointilleuse
6,898 corpus weight
- portillons
portillons
6,897 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plaquant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pla.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plaquant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plaquant is uncommon French at frequency #93,102 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pla.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de plaquer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for plaquant in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is plaquant, spelled P-L-A-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de plaquer.
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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