plisson
\pli.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“plisson” is uncommon French (frequency #76,902 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,902
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dessert poitevin à base de crème et de lait et dont le dessus, en fin de cuisson, est sillonné de plis profonds.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plisson · plisson · French
plisson · rank #76,902 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,902
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pluvial
Nearest frequency peer: pluvial (+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 « plisson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pissant
pissant
23,103 corpus weight
- plafonnés
plafonnés
23,102 corpus weight
- plagiats
plagiats
23,101 corpus weight
- plisson
plisson
23,099 corpus weight
- pluvial
pluvial
23,098 corpus weight
- plébéien
plébéien
23,097 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plisson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plisson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pli.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plisson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plisson is uncommon French at frequency #76,902 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pli.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dessert poitevin à base de crème et de lait et dont le dessus, en fin de cuisson, est sillonné de plis profonds.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for plisson, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plisson, spelled P-L-I-S-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Dessert poitevin à base de crème et de lait et dont le dessus, en fin de cuisson, est sillonné de plis profonds.
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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