pléthore
\ple.tɔʁ\
The verdict
“pléthore” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,743. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,743
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surabondance de sang et d’humeurs en ancienne médecine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plethore · pléthore · French
pléthore · rank #30,743 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,743
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pliée
Nearest frequency peer: pliée (-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 « pléthore »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plastic
plastic
69,261 corpus weight
- plata
plata
69,260 corpus weight
- pliée
pliée
69,259 corpus weight
- pléthore
pléthore
69,258 corpus weight
- poignarder
poignarder
69,257 corpus weight
- polonaises
polonaises
69,256 corpus weight
What this shows « pléthore » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pléthore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ple.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pléthore »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around pléthore (IPA \ple.tɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,743 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for pléthore, with forms such as "lpéthore", "plethore", and "plléthore". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pléthore, spelled P-L-É-T-H-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Surabondance de sang et d’humeurs en ancienne médecine.
- 2Surabondance de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pléthore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après les pléthores physiologiques et les pléthores morbides, viennent, dans un ordre naturel, les pléthores cachectiques, qui elles-mêmes, à défaut de moyens spécifiques ou directs, ne sont pas sans présenter quelquefois l’indication des émissions sanguines.
L’avenir qu’on peut le plus raisonnablement prévoir, c’est une suite de pléthores et de saignées. Les gens d’église s’enrichiront pendant cinquante ans de paix, et quand les révolutions viendront, on leur prendra leurs biens. Mais ces purgations périodiques violentes sont malsaines.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpéthore
- plethore
- plléthore
- pltéhore
- pléhtore
- pléthhore
- pléthoer
- pléthorre
- pléthroe
- plétohre
- plétthore
- ppléthore
- pélthore
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pléthore - 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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).