platanes
\pla.tan\
The verdict
“platanes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,481. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,481
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de platane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-platanes · platanes · French
platanes · rank #38,481 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,481
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plasticien
Nearest frequency peer: plasticien (-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 « platanes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- picturale
picturale
61,523 corpus weight
- plasticien
plasticien
61,521 corpus weight
- platanes
platanes
61,520 corpus weight
- poix
poix
61,519 corpus weight
- ppm
ppm
61,518 corpus weight
- pressante
pressante
61,517 corpus weight
What this shows « platanes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | platanes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pla.tan\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « platanes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around platanes (IPA \pla.tan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,481 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de platane.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for platanes, with forms such as "lpatanes", "paltanes", and "plaatnes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "plates", "platine", "planes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is platanes, spelled P-L-A-T-A-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de platane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how platanes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Range Rover était là, sous les platanes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpatanes
- paltanes
- plaatnes
- plataens
- plataness
- platannes
- platanse
- platnaes
- plattanes
- pllatanes
- pltaanes
- pplatanes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of platanes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "platanes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).