pliée

\pli.je\

/\pli.je\/ verb

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The verdict

“pliée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,742. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,742
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de plier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pliee · pliée · French

pliée · rank #30,742 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,742
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plata

Nearest frequency peer: plata (-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 « pliée »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « pliée » 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).

pliée vs prié
60% similar
pliée vs plis
60% similar
pliée vs prise
60% similar

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

Key facts for pliée
PropertyValue
Headwordpliée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pli.je\
Letters5
Frequency rank#30,742
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pliée »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).pliéese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plata » (#30,741), « pléthore » (#30,743), « plastic » (#30,740). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pliée » est au #30,742. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around pliée (IPA \pli.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,742 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de plier.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pliée, with forms such as "lpiée", "pilée", and "pliee". 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, "prié", "plis", "prise", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pliée, spelled P-L-I-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin singulier de plier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Les pauvres minables qui répètent dans leur garage avec l’affiche des vingt-quatre heures de La Courneuve pliée sur leur cœur feraient mieux de se faire une pignole, parce que pour eux c’est perdu d’avance.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • lpiée
  • pilée
  • pliee
  • plieé
  • plliée
  • pléie
  • ppliée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pliée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

lpiée2pilée2pliee1plieé2plliée1pléie2ppliée1
Edit distance from "pliée"

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 "pliée"?
"pliée" is spelled P-L-I-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pli.je\.
What does "pliée" mean?
As a verb, "pliée" means: Participe passé féminin singulier de plier.
What words are commonly confused with "pliée"?
"pliée" is commonly confused with "prié", "plis", "prise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pliée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pliée" is \pli.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pliée" come from?
"pliée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

plata#30,741proxy#30,753orson#30,727niant#30,717

Similar misspelling depth

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

ratez7 variantsmares7 variantsroyer7 variantssaper7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list