pliantes
\pli.jɑ̃t\
The verdict
“pliantes” is uncommon French (frequency #87,949 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,949
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de pliant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pliantes · pliantes · French
pliantes · rank #87,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,949
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleurésie
Nearest frequency peer: pleurésie (-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 « pliantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- planante
planante
12,055 corpus weight
- platonisme
platonisme
12,054 corpus weight
- pleurésie
pleurésie
12,053 corpus weight
- pliantes
pliantes
12,052 corpus weight
- plébéienne
plébéienne
12,050 corpus weight
- pléthoriques
pléthoriques
12,049 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pliantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pliantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pli.jɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pliantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pliantes is uncommon French at frequency #87,949 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pli.jɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de pliant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pliantes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 pliantes, spelled P-L-I-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de pliant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pliantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils sont tous restés debout, à dansailler d’une jambe sur l’autre, puisque ceux de devant n’ont pas voulu s’asseoir : les chaises pliantes sont en métal et il fait cinq degrés.
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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