plat principal
\pla pʁɛ̃.si.pal\
The verdict
“plat principal” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plat constituant le cœur d’un repas, souvent le plus copieux.
| 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) |
Where “plat principal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plat principal is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pla pʁɛ̃.si.pal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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.
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Using “plat principal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-L-A-T- -P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pla pʁɛ̃.si.pal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.