plisser
\pli.sɛ\
The verdict
“plisser” is uncommon French (frequency #86,026 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,026
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire des plis, spécialement en parlant des plis que les tailleurs, les lingères, les blanchisseuses et repasseuses font à certaines étoffes ou pièces de vêtement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plisser · plisser · French
plisser · rank #86,026 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,026
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleurerais
Nearest frequency peer: pleurerais (-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 « plisser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- planifiait
planifiait
13,978 corpus weight
- plenty
plenty
13,977 corpus weight
- pleurerais
pleurerais
13,976 corpus weight
- plisser
plisser
13,975 corpus weight
- ploutocratie
ploutocratie
13,974 corpus weight
- pneumopathie
pneumopathie
13,973 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plisser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pli.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plisser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plisser is uncommon French at frequency #86,026 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pli.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
plisser has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 plisser, spelled P-L-I-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire des plis, spécialement en parlant des plis que les tailleurs, les lingères, les blanchisseuses et repasseuses font à certaines étoffes ou pièces de vêtement.
- 2Avoir des plis, s’y faire des plis.
- 3Entrefermer l’oeil, les yeux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plisser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La señorita Valdez plissait et replissait la longue jupe de sa toilette du soir.
Don Ramon jeta un regard autour de lui ; un sourire de satisfaction plissa ses lèvres.
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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