plastide
\plas.tid\
The verdict
“plastide” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- 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-plastide · plastide · French
plastide · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | plastide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plas.tid\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
plastide is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plas.tid\. 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.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for plastide, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plastide, spelled P-L-A-S-T-I-D-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 examplesThese source excerpts show how plastide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dégagement de l'oxygène libre par des organismes, par des plastides à chlorophylle, reste vraiment la source principale [de l'oxygène libre dégagé dans la biosphère] et la quantité d'oxygène libre donne une mesure du travail géochimique des organismes.
Tout plastide a donc été produit par un autre plastide.
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.