plasticité
\plas.ti.si.te\
The verdict
“plasticité” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,976. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,976
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui peut prendre diverses formes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plasticite · plasticité · French
plasticité · rank #38,976 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,976
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH plaignaient
Nearest frequency peer: plaignaient (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “plasticité”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- perforation
perforation
61,028 corpus weight
- phytosanita…
phytosanitaires
61,027 corpus weight
- plaignaient
plaignaient
61,026 corpus weight
- plasticité
plasticité
61,025 corpus weight
- Plymouth
Plymouth
61,024 corpus weight
- pointilleux
pointilleux
61,023 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “plasticité” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | plasticité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plas.ti.si.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #38,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “plasticité” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around plasticité (IPA \plas.ti.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,976 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for plasticité, with forms such as "lpasticité", "palsticité", and "plasitcité". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "plasticien", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is plasticité, spelled P-L-A-S-T-I-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui peut prendre diverses formes.
- 2Mesure de la capacité d’un matériau à subir une déformation permanente sans se casser.
- 3Qualité de ce qui est malléable ou adaptable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpasticité
- palsticité
- plasitcité
- plassticité
- plastciité
- plasticcité
- plasticite
- plasticitté
- plasticiét
- plastictié
- plastiicté
- plastticité
- platsicité
- pllasticité
- plsaticité
- pplasticité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plasticité - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plasticité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.