pliables
\pli.abl\
The verdict
“pliables” is uncommon French (frequency #97,290 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,290
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pliable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pliables · pliables · French
pliables · rank #97,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,290
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleuvaient
Nearest frequency peer: pleuvaient (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pliables »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plaisantins
plaisantins
2,714 corpus weight
- planus
planus
2,713 corpus weight
- pleuvaient
pleuvaient
2,712 corpus weight
- pliables
pliables
2,711 corpus weight
- pluviométri…
pluviométrique
2,710 corpus weight
- poesia
poesia
2,709 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pliables » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pliables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pli.abl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pliables » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pliables is uncommon French at frequency #97,290 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pli.abl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pliable.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pliables in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pliables, spelled P-L-I-A-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pliable.
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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