plausible

/\plo.zibl\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,963

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

plausible is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a une apparence de vérité ; qui est accepté ou admis jusqu’à preuve du contraire. Pronounced \plo.zibl\. Often confused with plausibles and paisible.

Key facts for plausible
PropertyValue
Headwordplausible
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\plo.zibl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#15,963
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for plausible is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plo.zibl\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,963 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui a une apparence de vérité ; qui est accepté ou admis jusqu’à preuve du contraire.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for plausible, with forms such as "lpausible", "palusible", and "plasuible". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "plausibles", "paisible", "passible", 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 plausible, spelled P-L-A-U-S-I-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a une apparence de vérité ; qui est accepté ou admis jusqu’à preuve du contraire.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: lpausible,palusible,plasuible,plauisble,plausbile,plausibble,plausibel,plausiblle,plausilbe,plaussible,pllausible,pluasible,pplausible

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plausible

Misspelling Variants of "plausible"

lpausible9palusible9plasuible9plauisble9plausbile9plausibble10plausibel9plausiblle10
Misspelling Variants of "plausible"

Frequency rank: #15,963 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plausible"?
"plausible" is spelled P-L-A-U-S-I-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plo.zibl\.
What does "plausible" mean?
As an adj, "plausible" means: Qui a une apparence de vérité ; qui est accepté ou admis jusqu’à preuve du contraire.
What words are commonly confused with "plausible"?
"plausible" is commonly confused with "plausibles", "paisible", "passible". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "plausible"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plausible" is \plo.zibl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plausible" come from?
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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.