platine
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,056
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
platine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce plate dans divers appareils ou instruments. Pronounced \pla.tin\. It ranks #9,056 in French word frequency. Often confused with Pline and pleine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | platine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pla.tin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for platine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pla.tin\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,056 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for platine, with forms such as "lpatine", "paltine", and "platien". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Pline", "pleine", "plâtre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 platine, spelled P-L-A-T-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce plate dans divers appareils ou instruments.
- 2Mécanisme qui, dans les armes à feu portatives, servait à mettre le feu à l’amorce.
- 3Chacune des deux plaques qui servent à soutenir toutes les pièces du mouvement d’une montre ou d’une pendule.
- 4Partie de la presse à bras qui s’abaisse sur la forme de composition.
- 5Plaque de fer qui est fixée à une porte devant la serrure, et qui est percée de manière à donner passage à la clef.
- 6Tourne-disque, ou par extension tout autre appareil destiné à la lecture de contenu multimédia.
- 7Facilité à parler d’abondance.
- 8Pièce plate équipée d'un manche qui se place dans une bride d'une tuyauterie pour empêcher l'écoulement de fluide.
- 9Marque un anniversaire de 70 ans.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpatine,paltine,platien,platinne,platnie,plattine,pllatine,pltaine,pplatine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for platine
Misspelling Variants of "platine"
Frequency rank: #9,056 in French
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Nearby French words
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