plaquer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,646
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
plaquer is aFrenchverb. It means: Appliquer une chose sur une autre. Pronounced \pla.ke\. Often confused with player and plaques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pla.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plaquer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pla.ke\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,646 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for plaquer, with forms such as "lpaquer", "palquer", and "plaqeur". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "player", "plaques", "pâque", 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 plaquer, spelled P-L-A-Q-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Appliquer une chose sur une autre.
- 2Recouvrir d’or ou d’argent laminé des bijoux, de la vaisselle de cuivre ou de tout autre métal.
- 3Coller une plaque de bois précieux sur un bois commun ou un bois aggloméré.
- 4Coller un élément décoratif métallique sur du bois.
- 5Joindre deux choses qui ne vont pas ensemble.
- 6Abandonner ; quitter ; laisser tomber.
- 7Faire tomber l'adversaire porteur du ballon.
- 8Faire tomber l'adversaire et le maintenir le dos au sol.
- 9Les aplatir.
- 10Frapper du même coup les notes qui constituent un accord.
- 11Se serrer étroitement, s'aplatir.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpaquer,palquer,plaqeur,plaqquer,plaquerr,plaqure,plauqer,pllaquer,plqauer,pplaquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plaquer
Misspelling Variants of "plaquer"
Frequency rank: #23,646 in French
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