platitudes
\pla.ti.tyd\
The verdict
“platitudes” is uncommon French (frequency #71,795 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,795
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de platitude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-platitudes · platitudes · French
platitudes · rank #71,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,795
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH platement
Nearest frequency peer: platement (-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 « platitudes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- planifiez
planifiez
28,209 corpus weight
- plasmas
plasmas
28,208 corpus weight
- platement
platement
28,207 corpus weight
- platitudes
platitudes
28,206 corpus weight
- plissés
plissés
28,205 corpus weight
- pluviale
pluviale
28,204 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « platitudes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | platitudes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pla.ti.tyd\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « platitudes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
platitudes is uncommon French at frequency #71,795 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pla.ti.tyd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de platitude.".
platitudes has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is platitudes, spelled P-L-A-T-I-T-U-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de platitude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how platitudes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour ceux qui connaissent le genre, la recette ne change pas, le profane y découvre le sport et la compétition, mais le connaisseur reste sur sa faim, face aux platitudes dégainées par les consultants (principalement l’ancien international anglais Ugo Monye).
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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