pleins
\plɛ̃\
The verdict
“pleins” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,632
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de plein.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pleins · pleins · French
pleins · rank #3,632 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,632
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH personnels
Nearest frequency peer: personnels (-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 « pleins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ordinaire
ordinaire
96,372 corpus weight
- paire
paire
96,371 corpus weight
- personnels
personnels
96,370 corpus weight
- pleins
pleins
96,369 corpus weight
- Pologne
Pologne
96,368 corpus weight
- poursuite
poursuite
96,367 corpus weight
What this shows « pleins » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \plɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pleins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pleins (IPA \plɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,632 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de plein.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pleins, with forms such as "lpeins", "pelins", and "pleinns". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plis", "Pline", "pliés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pleins, spelled P-L-E-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de plein.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pleins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le train est lancé, on ne l’arrête plus : voici notre bonhomme au Courrier de Paris. Il rédige sa chronique après le spectacle. Puis Minerve, Le Canard Enchaîné » où il coincouine sa critique littéraire, La Gazette des lettres où il peaufine sa manière d’écrire : « le stylo c’est l’audace » et poursuit « Ventre à terre. A pleins étriers », son comba…
Parmi les couples qui tournaient, il apercevait, fox-trottant, virevoltant, pleins d’allégresse et d’entrain, Charlotte et Béchoux
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpeins
- pelins
- pleinns
- pleinss
- pleisn
- plenis
- pliens
- plleins
- ppleins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pleins - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).