platine

/\pla.tin\/ noun

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.

Key facts for platine
PropertyValue
Headwordplatine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pla.tin\
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,056
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of platine in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Pièce plate dans divers appareils ou instruments.
  2. 2
    Mécanisme qui, dans les armes à feu portatives, servait à mettre le feu à l’amorce.
  3. 3
    Chacune des deux plaques qui servent à soutenir toutes les pièces du mouvement d’une montre ou d’une pendule.
  4. 4
    Partie de la presse à bras qui s’abaisse sur la forme de composition.
  5. 5
    Plaque de fer qui est fixée à une porte devant la serrure, et qui est percée de manière à donner passage à la clef.
  6. 6
    Tourne-disque, ou par extension tout autre appareil destiné à la lecture de contenu multimédia.
  7. 7
    Facilité à parler d’abondance.
  8. 8
    Pièce plate équipée d'un manche qui se place dans une bride d'une tuyauterie pour empêcher l'écoulement de fluide.
  9. 9
    Marque 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"

lpatine7paltine7platien7platinne8platnie7plattine8pllatine8pltaine7
Misspelling Variants of "platine"

Frequency rank: #9,056 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "platine"?
"platine" is spelled P-L-A-T-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pla.tin\.
What does "platine" mean?
As a noun, "platine" means: Pièce plate dans divers appareils ou instruments.
What words are commonly confused with "platine"?
"platine" is commonly confused with "Pline", "pleine", "plâtre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "platine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "platine" is \pla.tin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "platine" come from?
"platine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.