plonger
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,598
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
plonger is aFrenchverb. It means: Enfoncer quelqu’un, quelque chose dans un liquide. Pronounced \plɔ̃.ʒe\. It ranks #8,598 in French word frequency. Often confused with prôner and plongés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plonger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɔ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plonger is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɔ̃.ʒe\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,598 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for plonger, with forms such as "lponger", "pllonger", and "plnoger". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "prôner", "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 plonger, spelled P-L-O-N-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enfoncer quelqu’un, quelque chose dans un liquide.
- 2Enfoncer profondément.
- 3Mettre dans une situation nouvelle ou un état nouveau.
- 4Être complétement absorbé.
- 5S’enfoncer entièrement dans l’eau, en sorte que l’eau passe par-dessus la tête.
- 6Avoir une direction de haut en bas.
- 7Par analogie, se lancer tête en bas et les bras en avant.
- 8Faire la révérence de cour.
- 9Être condamné à une peine de prison.
- 10S’abandonner complètement à un état ou une activité.
- 11Se livrer à un travail, une recherche qui absorbe entièrement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lponger,pllonger,plnoger,plogner,plonegr,plongerr,plongger,plongre,plonnger,polnger,pplonger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plonger
Misspelling Variants of "plonger"
Frequency rank: #8,598 in French
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Nearby French words
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