plastique

\plas.tik\

/\plas.tik\/ adj

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The verdict

“plastique” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,786. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,786
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au modelage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-plastique · plastique · French

plastique · rank #3,786 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,786
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH parlez

Nearest frequency peer: parlez (-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 « plastique »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « plastique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

plastique vs pratique
78% similar
plastique vs pastèque
78% similar
plastique vs plastic
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for plastique
PropertyValue
Headwordplastique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\plas.tik\
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,786
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plastique »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).plastiquese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « parlez » (#3,785), « plate » (#3,787), « parisienne » (#3,784). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « plastique » est au #3,786. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around plastique (IPA \plas.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,786 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for plastique, with forms such as "lpastique", "palstique", and "plasitque". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pratique", "pastèque", "plastic", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 plastique, spelled P-L-A-S-T-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif au modelage.
  2. 2
    Tous les arts du dessin.
  3. 3
    Qui cherche à remodeler les formes du corps.
  4. 4
    Souple, malléable.
  5. 5
    Ce qui a la puissance de former.
  6. 6
    Qui est propre à recevoir une forme.
  7. 7
    Qualifie une déformation qui persiste lorsque sa cause a disparu.
  8. 8
    Qui ne concerne que l'esthétisme, l'apparence.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how plastique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Art plastique, Art de modeler toutes sortes de figures et d’ornements en plâtre, en terre, en stuc, etc.
  2. La chirurgie plastique.

Antonyms

élastique

This word in other languages

plastic(English)plastisch(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • lpastique
  • palstique
  • plasitque
  • plasstique
  • plastiqeu
  • plastiqque
  • plastiuqe
  • plastqiue
  • plasttique
  • platsique
  • pllastique
  • plsatique
  • pplastique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plastique - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

lpastique2palstique2plasitque2plasstique1plastiqeu2plastiqque1plastiuqe2plastqiue2
Edit distance from "plastique"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plastique"?
"plastique" is spelled P-L-A-S-T-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plas.tik\.
What does "plastique" mean?
As an adjective, "plastique" means: Relatif au modelage.
What words are commonly confused with "plastique"?
"plastique" is commonly confused with "pratique", "pastèque", "plastic". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "plastique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plastique" is \plas.tik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plastique" come from?
"plastique" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plastique", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list