plot de départ
\plɔ də de.paʁ\
The verdict
“plot de départ” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Construction maçonnée et surélevée située sur le bord d'une piscine où montent les nageurs pour plonger à l'occasion ou non d'une compétition sportive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plot de départ |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɔ də de.paʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “plot de départ” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plot de départ is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɔ də de.paʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Construction maçonnée et surélevée située sur le bord d'une piscine où montent les nageurs pour plonger à l'occasion ou non d'une compétition sportive.".
No misspelling variants are generated for plot de départ in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de départ, spelled P-L-O-T- -D-E- -D-É-P-A-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Construction maçonnée et surélevée située sur le bord d'une piscine où montent les nageurs pour plonger à l'occasion ou non d'une compétition sportive.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-L-O-T- -D-E- -D-É-P-A-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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