plissement
\plis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“plissement” is uncommon French (frequency #90,038 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,038
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de plisser ; état de ce qui est plissé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plissement · plissement · French
plissement · rank #90,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,038
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pliait
Nearest frequency peer: pliait (-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 « plissement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- planchent
planchent
9,966 corpus weight
- planton
planton
9,965 corpus weight
- pliait
pliait
9,964 corpus weight
- plissement
plissement
9,963 corpus weight
- plombage
plombage
9,962 corpus weight
- Plougastel
Plougastel
9,960 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plissement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plissement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plissement is uncommon French at frequency #90,038 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
plissement has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is plissement, spelled P-L-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de plisser ; état de ce qui est plissé.
- 2Repli de l’écorce terrestre dû à une contraction de cette écorce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le soleil venait de disparaître, et des rayons divergents, semblables à de vastes plissements, partaient du point où il était tombé.
On voit que les trois femmes ont disposé avec soin le drap fraîchement repassé en grands plissements parallèles, presque sculpturaux, étalés sur toute la largeur du lit, et fait bouffer l’oreiller de Madame.
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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