plongée

\plɔ̃.ʒe\

/\plɔ̃.ʒe\/ noun

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The verdict

“plongée” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,739. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,739
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de plonger ; état de celui qui plonge.

Corpus desk

Index FR-plongee · plongée · French

plongée · rank #7,739 · 11 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,739
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plateaux

Nearest frequency peer: plateaux (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « plongée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « plongée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

plongée vs prônée
57% similar
plongée vs plonger
71% similar
plongée vs plongés
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for plongée
PropertyValue
Headwordplongée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\plɔ̃.ʒe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,739
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plongée »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).plongéese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plateaux » (#7,738), « pluies » (#7,740), « perfection » (#7,737). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « plongée » est au #7,739. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around plongée (IPA \plɔ̃.ʒe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,739 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for plongée, with forms such as "lpongée", "pllongée", and "plnogée". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "prônée", "plonger", "plongés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is plongée, spelled P-L-O-N-G-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de plonger ; état de celui qui plonge.
  2. 2
    Manœuvre par laquelle un sous-marin s’enfonce dans l’eau, et aussi l’état d’immersion dans lequel il se trouve par suite de cette manœuvre.
  3. 3
    Action de s’immerger dans quelque chose.
  4. 4
    Mouvement descendant brusque.
  5. 5
    Talus supérieur du parapet.
  6. 6
    Vue du haut vers le bas.
  7. 7
    Lors d'un freinage, la force qui abaisse l’avant d'un véhicule et qui soulève l’arrière de ce même véhicule.
  8. 8
    Désignait autrefois la garde d'eau d'un siphon d'installation sanitaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how plongée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dès qu’ils arrivèrent à la haie, et quelques précautions qu’ils prissent pour ne pas faire de bruit, il y eut immédiatement une douzaine de plongées batraciennes qui retentirent en pflocs sonores.
  2. La durée de sa plongée a été exactement de trois minutes.

Synonyms

vue plongeante

Antonyms

contreplongéecontre-plongée

This word in other languages

dive(English)buceo(Español)Tauchen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • lpongée
  • pllongée
  • plnogée
  • plognée
  • plongee
  • plongeé
  • plonggée
  • plonngée
  • plonége
  • polngée
  • pplongée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plongée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

lpongée2pllongée1plnogée2plognée2plongee1plongeé2plonggée1plonngée1
Edit distance from "plongée"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plongée"?
"plongée" is spelled P-L-O-N-G-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plɔ̃.ʒe\.
What does "plongée" mean?
As a noun, "plongée" means: Action de plonger ; état de celui qui plonge.
What words are commonly confused with "plongée"?
"plongée" is commonly confused with "prônée", "plonger", "plongés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "plongée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plongée" is \plɔ̃.ʒe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "plongée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plongée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Quentin#7,748morales#7,728rebelle#7,750routier#7,755

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

plateaux11 variantsPoitiers11 variantsmutation11 variantsLeclerc11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list