plat principal
\pla pʁɛ̃.si.pal\
The verdict
“plat principal” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plat constituant le cœur d’un repas, souvent le plus copieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plat-principal · plat principal · French
plat principal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | plat principal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pla pʁɛ̃.si.pal\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plat principal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plat principal is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pla pʁɛ̃.si.pal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plat constituant le cœur d’un repas, souvent le plus copieux.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for plat principal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 plat principal, spelled P-L-A-T- -P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-L.
Definition
- 1Plat constituant le cœur d’un repas, souvent le plus copieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plat principal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nombre de personnes : cette recette correspond à 6 tomates farcies que vous pouvez servir en plat principal pour 2 personnes ou bien avec d'autres légumes farcis pour 6 personnes.
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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.