pléiade

\ple.jad\

/\ple.jad\/ noun

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The verdict

“pléiade” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,034. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,034
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pluriel Les pléiades : Groupe de sept étoiles visibles à l’œil nu appartenant à un amas d’étoiles très visible au sein de la constellation du Taureau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pleiade · pléiade · French

pléiade · rank #22,034 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #22,034
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plongeant

Nearest frequency peer: plongeant (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pléiade »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pléiade » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pléiade vs pleine
57% similar
pléiade vs pliage
71% similar
pléiade vs please
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pléiade
PropertyValue
Headwordpléiade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ple.jad\
Letters7
Frequency rank#22,034
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pléiade »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).pléiadese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plongeant » (#22,033), « pondre » (#22,035), « placebo » (#22,032). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pléiade » est au #22,034. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around pléiade (IPA \ple.jad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,034 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pléiade, with forms such as "lpéiade", "pleiade", and "pliéade". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "pleine", "pliage", "please", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pléiade, spelled P-L-É-I-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    pluriel Les pléiades : Groupe de sept étoiles visibles à l’œil nu appartenant à un amas d’étoiles très visible au sein de la constellation du Taureau.
  2. 2
    Groupe de sept poètes : Lycophron, Théocrite, etc., qui florissaient à Alexandrie sous le règne de Ptolémée Philadelphe (IIIᵉ siècle avant J.-C.).
  3. 3
    Groupe de sept poètes français du XVIᵉ siècle : Ronsard, du Bellay, Baïf, Belleau, Pontus de Thyard, Jodelle et Pelletier du Mans (remplacé à sa mort par Jean Dorat).
  4. 4
    Groupe de poètes d’une même école.
  5. 5
    Élite de quelques personnes formant une sorte de cénacle.
  6. 6
    Multitude.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Bien des fois la nuit, de cette fenêtre tapissée de lierre, j’ai regardé avant de m’endormir le grand Orion inclinant vers l’ouest ; bien des fois, la nuit, j’ai vu les pléiades se lever au milieu de la molle obscurité, brillantes comme des lucioles enlacées dans un réseau d’argent.
  2. Orhan Veli fait vite école, mais son surréalisme et celui de son école, à vrai dire, sont plus larges, plus humains que leur modèle français. Certains poèmes de cette pléiade font penser à Villon et à la pré-renaissance.

This word in other languages

Aufgebot(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • lpéiade
  • pleiade
  • pliéade
  • plléiade
  • pléaide
  • pléiadde
  • pléiaed
  • pléidae
  • ppléiade
  • péliade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pléiade - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

lpéiade2pleiade1pliéade2plléiade1pléaide2pléiadde1pléiaed2pléidae2
Edit distance from "pléiade"

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 "pléiade"?
"pléiade" is spelled P-L-É-I-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ple.jad\.
What does "pléiade" mean?
As a noun, "pléiade" means: pluriel Les pléiades : Groupe de sept étoiles visibles à l’œil nu appartenant à un amas d’étoiles très visible au sein de la constellation du Taureau.
What words are commonly confused with "pléiade"?
"pléiade" is commonly confused with "pleine", "pliage", "please". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pléiade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pléiade" is \ple.jad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pléiade" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

placebo#22,032popcorn#22,036piquant#22,031prévaut#22,046

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Putsch10 variantspétard10 variantsramenez10 variantsMuhammad10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list