pliait
\pli.jɛ\
The verdict
“pliait” is uncommon French (frequency #90,037 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,037
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pliait · pliait · French
pliait · rank #90,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,037
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planton
Nearest frequency peer: planton (-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 « pliait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pisan
pisan
9,968 corpus weight
- planchent
planchent
9,966 corpus weight
- planton
planton
9,965 corpus weight
- pliait
pliait
9,964 corpus weight
- plissement
plissement
9,963 corpus weight
- plombage
plombage
9,962 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pliait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pliait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pli.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pliait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pliait is uncommon French at frequency #90,037 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pli.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pliait in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pliait, spelled P-L-I-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pliait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce ciel pesait sur le toit chargé de neige des greniers à fourrages, le noyer nu, la girouette, et pliait les oreilles des chattes...
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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