plate-bande

/\plat bɑ̃d\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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plate-bande is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bande de terre allongée dans un jardin et garnie d’une même sorte de plantations (gazon, arbustes, légumes, fleurs, etc.). Pronounced \plat bɑ̃d\.

Key facts for plate-bande
PropertyValue
Headwordplate-bande
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\plat bɑ̃d\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

plate-bande is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for plate-bande is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plat bɑ̃d\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for plate-bande in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 plate-bande, spelled P-L-A-T-E---B-A-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bande de terre allongée dans un jardin et garnie d’une même sorte de plantations (gazon, arbustes, légumes, fleurs, etc.).
  2. 2
    Moulure plate et unie.
  3. 3
    Pierre dont chaque extrémité porte sur une colonne, un pilier, un pied-droit.
  4. 4
    Linteau de porte ou de fenêtre formé d’une seule pierre ou d’un assemblage de claveaux tenant lieu d’une seule pierre.
  5. 5
    Diminution de l’épaisseur d’un panneau sur tout son pourtour, pratiquée afin d’engager le panneau dans les rainures du cadre, d’une porte par exemple.
  6. 6
    Rabot d’ébéniste pour tracer des moulures.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plate-bande"?
"plate-bande" is spelled P-L-A-T-E---B-A-N-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plat bɑ̃d\.
What does "plate-bande" mean?
As a noun, "plate-bande" means: Bande de terre allongée dans un jardin et garnie d’une même sorte de plantations (gazon, arbustes, légumes, fleurs, etc.).
How do you pronounce "plate-bande"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plate-bande" is \plat bɑ̃d\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plate-bande" come from?
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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.