pli
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,108
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pli is aFrenchnoun. It means: Double qu’on fait à une étoffe, à du linge, à du papier, etc., en rabattant une partie contre une autre. Pronounced \pli\. Often confused with pu and PS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pli\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pli is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pli\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,108 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pli in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", 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 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 pli, spelled P-L-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Double qu’on fait à une étoffe, à du linge, à du papier, etc., en rabattant une partie contre une autre.
- 2Sinuosité que présente une étoffe flottante, une draperie.
- 3Lettre (parce qu'on repliait le papier pour fermer les lettres) ; enveloppe de lettre.
- 4Secret, endroit caché.
- 5Marque qui reste à une étoffe, à du linge, à du papier, etc., pour avoir été plié.
- 6Usage, habitude.
- 7Position de la tête du cheval, plus ou moins en dedans ou en dehors. → voir plier
- 8Ce qui ressemble au pli d’une étoffe, etc.
- 9Ride.
- 10Articulation.
- 11Coin.
- 12Levée, ensemble des cartes jouées lors d’un tour de jeu de cartes.
- 13Déformation ductile d’une roche.
- 14Feuillet d’une carte pliée.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #19,108 in French
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