platitude

\pla.ti.tyd\

/\pla.ti.tyd\/ noun

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The verdict

“platitude” is uncommon French (frequency #61,038 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,038
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui est plat.

Corpus desk

Index FR-platitude · platitude · French

platitude · rank #61,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,038
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH planificateur

Nearest frequency peer: planificateur (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « platitude »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « platitude » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for platitude
PropertyValue
Headwordplatitude
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pla.ti.tyd\
Letters9
Frequency rank#61,038
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « platitude » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).platitudetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « planificateur » (#61,037), « pleur » (#61,039), « piranha » (#61,036). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « platitude » est au #61,038. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

platitude is uncommon French at frequency #61,038 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pla.ti.tyd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.

platitude has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 platitude, spelled P-L-A-T-I-T-U-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui est plat.
  2. 2
    Caractère de ce qui est plat, sans relief, qui manque de caractère.
  3. 3
    Caractère de ce qui est plat, sans relief, qui manque de caractère.
  4. 4
    Idées ou paroles banales.
  5. 5
    Servilité, bassesse.
  6. 6
    Surface plane destinée à permettre l'assemblage à l'équerre de trois pièces de tissu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how platitude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. De place en place, une dune ressort sur cette platitude, donnant sa note propre avec ses grands pignons ou ses buissons de tamaris, seuls à résister au vent de la côte, et parfois de véritables bois comme cette extraordinaire génévraie des Bièges.
  2. D’après ses propres calculs, l’engin devrait être en mesure de monter à une altitude de cinq cent cinquante mètres, une altitude suffisante de son point de vue pour prouver la platitude de notre planète.

Synonyms

lieu commun

This word in other languages

platitude(English)Plattitüde(Deutsch)banalidade(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "platitude"?
"platitude" is spelled P-L-A-T-I-T-U-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pla.ti.tyd\.
What does "platitude" mean?
As a noun, "platitude" means: Ce qui est plat.
How do you pronounce "platitude"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "platitude" is \pla.ti.tyd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "platitude", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list