plastic
\plas.tik\
The verdict
“plastic” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,740. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,740
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Explosif très puissant composé d’hexogène ou de penthrite, de liant comme la gomme butadiène-styrène, de plastifiants et parfois d’huile minérale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plastic · plastic · French
plastic · rank #30,740 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #30,740
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pincer
Nearest frequency peer: pincer (-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 « plastic »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- personnalis…
personnalisés
69,264 corpus weight
- Phyllis
Phyllis
69,263 corpus weight
- pincer
pincer
69,262 corpus weight
- plastic
plastic
69,261 corpus weight
- plata
plata
69,260 corpus weight
- pliée
pliée
69,259 corpus weight
What this shows « plastic » 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 | plastic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plas.tik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plastic »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around plastic (IPA \plas.tik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,740 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Explosif très puissant composé d’hexogène ou de penthrite, de liant comme la gomme butadiène-styrène, de plastifiants et parfois d’huile minérale.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for plastic, with forms such as "lpastic", "palstic", and "plasitc". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "plastique", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is plastic, spelled P-L-A-S-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Explosif très puissant composé d’hexogène ou de penthrite, de liant comme la gomme butadiène-styrène, de plastifiants et parfois d’huile minérale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plastic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sabotage a été fait au plastic.
Le jour tant attendu arriva : des camions passèrent le pont-levis et s’offrit à nos yeux l’inoubliable et bouleversant spectacle de containers chargés d’armes parachutées d’Angleterre. Ils furent ouverts avec un respect infini : les mitraillettes Sten, les impressionnants fusils-mitrailleurs Bren à chargeur courbe, les grenades défensives avec leur goupil…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpastic
- palstic
- plasitc
- plasstic
- plastci
- plasticc
- plasttic
- platsic
- pllastic
- plsatic
- pplastic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plastic - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).