plaste
\plast\
The verdict
“plaste” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organite caractéristique des cellules des végétaux supérieurs capable de fixer diverses substances et dans lequel peuvent s'accumuler des pigments, dont le plus important est la chlorophylle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaste · plaste · French
plaste · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plast\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
plaste is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plast\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organite caractéristique des cellules des végétaux supérieurs capable de fixer diverses substances et dans lequel peuvent s'accumuler des pigments, dont le plus important est la chlorophylle.".
Zero misspellings are on record for plaste in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is plaste, spelled P-L-A-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Organite caractéristique des cellules des végétaux supérieurs capable de fixer diverses substances et dans lequel peuvent s'accumuler des pigments, dont le plus important est la chlorophylle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mitochondrie, un ancien organisme désormais intégré à nos cellules pour leur fournir l’énergie nécessaire, est identique à la chlorophylle, un plaste impliqué dans la photosynthèse.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.