pliées
\pli.je\
The verdict
“pliées” is uncommon French (frequency #55,512 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,512
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin pluriel de plier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pliees · pliées · French
pliées · rank #55,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,512
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaçons
Nearest frequency peer: plaçons (-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 « pliées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pissenlit
pissenlit
44,493 corpus weight
- plantait
plantait
44,492 corpus weight
- plantureuse
plantureuse
44,491 corpus weight
- plaçons
plaçons
44,490 corpus weight
- pliées
pliées
44,489 corpus weight
- PNF
PNF
44,488 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pliées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pliées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pli.je\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pliées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pliées is uncommon French at frequency #55,512 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pli.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin pluriel de plier.".
pliées has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pliées, spelled P-L-I-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin pluriel de plier.
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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