plongeon
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,525
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
plongeon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de plonger. Pronounced \plɔ̃.ʒɔ̃\. Often confused with plonger and plongés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plongeon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɔ̃.ʒɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plongeon is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɔ̃.ʒɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,525 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for plongeon, with forms such as "lpongeon", "pllongeon", and "plnogeon". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "plonger", "plongés", "plongez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is plongeon, spelled P-L-O-N-G-E-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de plonger.
- 2Action de plonger.
- 3Action de plonger.
- 4Descente rapide.
- 5Oiseau palmipède de la famille des gaviidés, vivant dans l’hémisphère Nord et ainsi appelé parce qu’il plonge dans l’eau pour y prendre sa nourriture :
- 6Oiseau palmipède de la famille des gaviidés, vivant dans l’hémisphère Nord et ainsi appelé parce qu’il plonge dans l’eau pour y prendre sa nourriture :
- 7Oiseau palmipède de la famille des gaviidés, vivant dans l’hémisphère Nord et ainsi appelé parce qu’il plonge dans l’eau pour y prendre sa nourriture :
- 8Oiseau palmipède de la famille des gaviidés, vivant dans l’hémisphère Nord et ainsi appelé parce qu’il plonge dans l’eau pour y prendre sa nourriture :
- 9Oiseau palmipède de la famille des gaviidés, vivant dans l’hémisphère Nord et ainsi appelé parce qu’il plonge dans l’eau pour y prendre sa nourriture :
- 10Oiseau palmipède de la famille des gaviidés, vivant dans l’hémisphère Nord et ainsi appelé parce qu’il plonge dans l’eau pour y prendre sa nourriture :
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpongeon,pllongeon,plnogeon,plogneon,plonegon,plongeno,plongeonn,plonggeon,plongoen,plonngeon,polngeon,pplongeon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plongeon
Misspelling Variants of "plongeon"
Frequency rank: #20,525 in French
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