pliage

\pli.jaʒ\

/\pli.jaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“pliage” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,957. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,957
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de plier, de rejoindre deux bouts d’un même morceau sans le casser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pliage · pliage · French

pliage · rank #46,957 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,957
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH piétonnier

Nearest frequency peer: piétonnier (-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 « pliage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pliage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pliage vs plie
67% similar
pliage vs Pline
50% similar
pliage vs pliée
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pliage
PropertyValue
Headwordpliage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pli.jaʒ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#46,957
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pliage »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pliagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « piétonnier » (#46,956), « Pluto » (#46,958), « pistaches » (#46,955). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pliage » est au #46,957. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around pliage (IPA \pli.jaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,957 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pliage, with forms such as "lpiage", "plaige", and "pliaeg". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plie", "Pline", "pliée", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pliage, spelled P-L-I-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de plier, de rejoindre deux bouts d’un même morceau sans le casser.
  2. 2
    Résultat de cette action.
  3. 3
    Opération consistant à rabattre sur lui-même un matériau en feuille, une ou plusieurs fois.
  4. 4
    Le fait de déformer plastiquement une tôle par flexion le long d’une ligne, avec une plieuse, formant ainsi un pli.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pliage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J’ai organisé le premier et le plus simple des exercices de pliage. Chaque enfant reçoit un morceau de papier, à charge de le rouler en balle, « comme si l’on voulait faire jouer le petit chat ».
  2. C'était un pliage en forme de cocotte. Intrigué, il saisit l’origami pour le regarder de plus près. Qui avait bien pu laisser ça ici ? En le tournant sur un côté il vit que la cocotte n’avait pas été pliée à partir d’une feuille vierge […].

Antonyms

dépliagedépliement

This word in other languages

folding(English)plegable(Español)Biegsam(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • lpiage
  • plaige
  • pliaeg
  • pliagge
  • pligae
  • plliage
  • ppliage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pliage - 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.

lpiage2plaige2pliaeg2pliagge1pligae2plliage1ppliage1
Edit distance from "pliage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pliage"?
"pliage" is spelled P-L-I-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pli.jaʒ\.
What does "pliage" mean?
As a noun, "pliage" means: Action de plier, de rejoindre deux bouts d’un même morceau sans le casser.
What words are commonly confused with "pliage"?
"pliage" is commonly confused with "plie", "Pline", "pliée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pliage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pliage" is \pli.jaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pliage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pliage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Paquin#46,942pactes#46,938Reggio#46,988relous#46,989

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Pluto7 variantsosant7 variantsnoëls7 variantsmodif7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list