pliante
\pli.jɑ̃t\
The verdict
“pliante” is uncommon French (frequency #69,313 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,313
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de pliant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pliante · pliante · French
pliante · rank #69,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,313
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planificateurs
Nearest frequency peer: planificateurs (-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 « pliante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piranhas
piranhas
30,690 corpus weight
- planificate…
planificateurs
30,689 corpus weight
- pliante
pliante
30,688 corpus weight
- politologues
politologues
30,686 corpus weight
- pore
pore
30,685 corpus weight
- pornstar
pornstar
30,684 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pliante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pliante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pli.jɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pliante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pliante is uncommon French at frequency #69,313 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pli.jɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de pliant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pliante in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pliante, spelled P-L-I-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de pliant.
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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