plongement
\plɔ̃.ʒmɑ̃\
The verdict
“plongement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plongeon, action de plonger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plongement · plongement · French
plongement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plongement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɔ̃.ʒmɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plongement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plongement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɔ̃.ʒmɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for plongement in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is plongement, spelled P-L-O-N-G-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Plongeon, action de plonger.
- 2Immersion.
- 3Objet mathématique considéré au sein d’un autre ou dans le cadre d’un autre et dont certains traits structuraux déterminés sont maintenus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plongement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Point de plongement, angle qu'une couche de roches fait avec le plan horizontal ; quantité de plongement, le nombre de degrés dont elle s'écarte de la ligne horizontale.
Aucun moyen de prédire la survenue d'un séisme Le dernier grand tremblement de terre survenu au Japon, à Kobe en 1995, était pour sa part lié au plongement de la plaque philippine sous l'Eurasie, un autre secteur très actif*.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.