pliant
\pli.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“pliant” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,484. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,484
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est souple, flexible, facile à plier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pliant · pliant · French
pliant · rank #37,484 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,484
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaident
Nearest frequency peer: plaident (-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 « pliant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pir
pir
62,520 corpus weight
- pirogue
pirogue
62,519 corpus weight
- plaident
plaident
62,518 corpus weight
- pliant
pliant
62,517 corpus weight
- pointait
pointait
62,516 corpus weight
- poitrines
poitrines
62,514 corpus weight
What this shows « pliant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pliant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pli.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pliant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pliant (IPA \pli.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,484 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pliant, with forms such as "lpiant", "pilant", and "pliannt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "point", "print", "Pline", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pliant, spelled P-L-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est souple, flexible, facile à plier.
- 2Qualifie un meuble qui se replie pour permettre son rangement.
- 3Qui est docile, accommodant, disposé à faire ce que les autres veulent ou ce que les circonstances demandent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pliant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une chose pliante plie aisément et beaucoup : tel est l’osier. Une chose ployante plie aisément, mais peu : le courlis et la bécasse ont un bec en forme de sonde grêle et ployante (Buff.) ; l’échasse a des jambes molles et ployantes (Id.).
L’osier est extrêmement pliant.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpiant
- pilant
- pliannt
- pliantt
- pliatn
- plinat
- plliant
- ppliant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pliant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).