plastron
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,107
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
plastron is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de la cuirasse qui protège la poitrine. Pronounced \plas.tʁɔ̃\. Often confused with Platon and patron.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plastron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plas.tʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plastron is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plas.tʁɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #48,107 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for plastron, with forms such as "lpastron", "palstron", and "plasrton". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Platon", "patron", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is plastron, spelled P-L-A-S-T-R-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de la cuirasse qui protège la poitrine.
- 2Pièce de certains vêtements, dans l’uniforme de certaines troupes et dans certains costumes masculins ou féminins, qui recouvre toute la poitrine.
- 3Pièce de cuir, rembourrée et matelassée, dont le fleurettiste, afin d’amortir les coups de bouton de fleuret.
- 4Équipement de protection du receveur.
- 5Morceau de bois garni d’une plaque de fer percée de plusieurs trous à moitié épaisseur, qui s’applique sur la poitrine et sur laquelle l’ouvrier appuie la tête du foret pour percer en le faisant tourner.
- 6Tablier de protection.
- 7Partie ventrale, sternale de certains animaux.
- 8Partie ventrale, sternale de certains animaux.
- 9Homme qui est en butte aux railleries ou aux importunités d’un autre.
- 10Élément, personne ou véhicule, utilisé comme cible lors d’un entraînement militaire ou policier ; personne qui joue une victime, un otage lors d'une reconstitution judiciaire.
- 11Péritonite localisée compliquant une appendicite.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpastron,palstron,plasrton,plasstron,plastorn,plastrno,plastronn,plastrron,plasttron,platsron,pllastron,plsatron,pplastron
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plastron
Misspelling Variants of "plastron"
Frequency rank: #48,107 in French
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