plasturgie
\plas.tyʁ.ʒi\
The verdict
“plasturgie” is uncommon French (frequency #59,538 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,538
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Industrie de transformation des matières plastiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plasturgie · plasturgie · French
plasturgie · rank #59,538 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,538
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planifient
Nearest frequency peer: planifient (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « plasturgie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plaisantait
plaisantait
40,466 corpus weight
- plaisants
plaisants
40,465 corpus weight
- planifient
planifient
40,464 corpus weight
- plasturgie
plasturgie
40,463 corpus weight
- pleurons
pleurons
40,462 corpus weight
- plissée
plissée
40,461 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plasturgie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plasturgie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plas.tyʁ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plasturgie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plasturgie is uncommon French at frequency #59,538 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plas.tyʁ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for plasturgie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is plasturgie, spelled P-L-A-S-T-U-R-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Industrie de transformation des matières plastiques.
- 2Pièce de plastique produite par le travail de plasturgie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plasturgie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plasturgie est une industrie relativement neuve si on la compare aux autres industries telle que la sidérurgie.
L’activité de plasturgie est pointue et de haute valeur ajoutée.
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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