pliable
\pli.abl\
The verdict
“pliable” is uncommon French (frequency #51,048 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,048
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est flexible, aisé à plier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pliable · pliable · French
pliable · rank #51,048 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,048
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaisaient
Nearest frequency peer: plaisaient (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pliable”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pisciculture
pisciculture
48,956 corpus weight
- più
più
48,955 corpus weight
- plaisaient
plaisaient
48,954 corpus weight
- pliable
pliable
48,953 corpus weight
- plumer
plumer
48,951 corpus weight
- pollueur
pollueur
48,950 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pliable” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pliable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pli.abl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “pliable” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
pliable is uncommon French at frequency #51,048 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pli.abl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pliable, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pliable, spelled P-L-I-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est flexible, aisé à plier.
- 2Qui est docile, disposé à se laisser gouverner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pliable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette sorte de bois n’est guère pliable.
Avoir l’esprit pliable, l’humeur pliable.
This word in other languages
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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