plugin
\ply.gin\
The verdict
“plugin” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,973. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,973
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit logiciel d’application complémentaire qui, associé à une application spécifique, en augmente les capacités, par exemple en lui permettant d’interpréter un nouveau format de données.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plugin · plugin · French
plugin · rank #37,973 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,973
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pilori
Nearest frequency peer: pilori (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « plugin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- photographi…
photographiée
62,031 corpus weight
- picoler
picoler
62,030 corpus weight
- pilori
pilori
62,029 corpus weight
- plugin
plugin
62,028 corpus weight
- pluvieuse
pluvieuse
62,027 corpus weight
- poignardée
poignardée
62,026 corpus weight
What this shows « plugin » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plugin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ply.gin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plugin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around plugin (IPA \ply.gin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,973 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit logiciel d’application complémentaire qui, associé à une application spécifique, en augmente les capacités, par exemple en lui permettant d’interpréter un nouveau format de données.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for plugin, with forms such as "lpugin", "plguin", and "pllugin". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "pluie", "purin", "Pluton", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is plugin, spelled P-L-U-G-I-N.
Definition
- 1Petit logiciel d’application complémentaire qui, associé à une application spécifique, en augmente les capacités, par exemple en lui permettant d’interpréter un nouveau format de données.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpugin
- plguin
- pllugin
- pluggin
- pluginn
- plugni
- pluign
- pplugin
- pulgin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plugin - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).