plasma
\plas.ma\
The verdict
“plasma” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,661. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,661
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie liquide du sang ou de la lymphe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plasma · plasma · French
plasma · rank #13,661 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,661
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaisent
Nearest frequency peer: plaisent (-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 « plasma »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pizzas
pizzas
86,343 corpus weight
- plaisait
plaisait
86,342 corpus weight
- plaisent
plaisent
86,341 corpus weight
- plasma
plasma
86,340 corpus weight
- plaçant
plaçant
86,339 corpus weight
- posait
posait
86,338 corpus weight
What this shows « plasma » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plasma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plas.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plasma »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around plasma (IPA \plas.ma\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,661 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for plasma, with forms such as "lpasma", "palsma", and "plamsa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "plaza", "plata", "playa", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 plasma, spelled P-L-A-S-M-A.
Definition
- 1Partie liquide du sang ou de la lymphe.
- 2Matière dans l’état plasma, état constitué de particules chargées (ions et électrons).
- 3Quartz ^([1]) agate vert pré, très translucide, à cassure conchoïde. Aussi appelé plasme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plasma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'hémorragie aiguë entraîne une perte brutale proportionnelle de plasma et d'éléments figurés du sang. Bien qu'ici le sang total perdu atteigne 2,5 l, soit environ la moitié de la volémie d'un adulte, l'hématocrite reste initialement stable (t1).
J’ouvre la porte. Instant redoutable à cause de l’odeur. Elle vous attend sur le seuil, compacte, immobile et tiède, comme un plasma.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpasma
- palsma
- plamsa
- plasam
- plasmma
- plassma
- pllasma
- plsama
- pplasma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plasma - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).