plisse
\plis\
The verdict
“plisse” is uncommon French (frequency #67,002 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,002
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - L’un des noms vernaculaires du flet (Platichthys flesus), poisson plat ressemblant à la limande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plisse · plisse · French
plisse · rank #67,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,002
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plana
Nearest frequency peer: plana (-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 « plisse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plaisais
plaisais
33,002 corpus weight
- plaisantais
plaisantais
33,001 corpus weight
- plana
plana
33,000 corpus weight
- plisse
plisse
32,999 corpus weight
- plombent
plombent
32,998 corpus weight
- Poelvoorde
Poelvoorde
32,996 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plisse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plisse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plisse is uncommon French at frequency #67,002 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "L’un des noms vernaculaires du flet (Platichthys flesus), poisson plat ressemblant à la limande.".
Zero misspellings are on record for plisse in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plisse, spelled P-L-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1L’un des noms vernaculaires du flet (Platichthys flesus), poisson plat ressemblant à la limande.
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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