plinthe
\plɛ̃t\
The verdict
“plinthe” is uncommon French (frequency #66,231 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,231
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pierre plate et carrée qui se trouve sous la colonne ou au-dessus du chapiteau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plinthe · plinthe · French
plinthe · rank #66,231 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,231
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleureur
Nearest frequency peer: pleureur (-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 « plinthe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plancha
plancha
33,773 corpus weight
- plantin
plantin
33,772 corpus weight
- pleureur
pleureur
33,771 corpus weight
- plinthe
plinthe
33,770 corpus weight
- plongeoir
plongeoir
33,769 corpus weight
- pluvieuses
pluvieuses
33,768 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plinthe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plinthe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plinthe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plinthe is uncommon French at frequency #66,231 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɛ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for plinthe in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is plinthe, spelled P-L-I-N-T-H-E.
Definition
- 1Pierre plate et carrée qui se trouve sous la colonne ou au-dessus du chapiteau.
- 2Tablette carrée formant un socle.
- 3Bande ou saillie plate qui court au pied d’un bâtiment, au bas d’un mur d’appartement, d’un lambris.
- 4Protection consistant en une planche en bois ou en métal fixée sur le plancher d’un échafaudage afin d’empêcher la chute accidentelle d’outils ou de débris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plinthe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les rosaces, les plinthes, les moulures, les astragales, tous les détails de l’édifice offrent la même perfection.
À force de grimper, nous atteignîmes la crête supérieure, et nous nous assîmes sur la plinthe du socle d’un grand lion de granit qui marque au versant de la montagne les limites de la Vieille-Castille ; au delà, c’est la Castille-Nouvelle.
This word in other languages
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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