plot
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,836
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
plot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tronc de cône creux, généralement en plastique et empilable, et servant de marquage au sol de parcours. Pronounced \plo\. Often confused with Po and Pt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plot is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plo\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,836 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for plot, with forms such as "lpot", "pllot", and "plott". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Po", "Pt", "pro", 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 plot, spelled P-L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tronc de cône creux, généralement en plastique et empilable, et servant de marquage au sol de parcours.
- 2Petite élévation quadrangulaire d’où plonge le nageur au départ d’une épreuve.
- 3Pièce métallique sur laquelle s’appuie la lame servant à établir un contact, une connexion électrique.
- 4Pièce, pavé métallique servant à transmettre l’énergie électrique au tramway.
- 5Billot.
- 6Billot sur lequel le bourreau décapite.
- 7Massif de laiton dont l’horloger se sert pour river la masse sur la platine.
- 8(Franche-Comté, Bourgogne, Auvergne, Provence) Billot de bois, segment de tronc d’arbre sur lequel on fend le bois à la hache.
- 9(Forez, Lyonnais, Provence, Savoie) Tabouret à trois ou à quatre pieds.
- 10Grume débitée en plateaux, puis reconstituée par empilement des plateaux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpot,pllot,plott,plto,polt,pplot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plot
Misspelling Variants of "plot"
Frequency rank: #33,836 in French
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Nearby French words
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