premier plan

/\pʁə.mje plɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

premier plan is aFrenchnoun. It means: En termes de composition, ce qui est sur le devant de la scène principale. Pronounced \pʁə.mje plɑ̃\.

Key facts for premier plan
PropertyValue
Headwordpremier plan
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁə.mje plɑ̃\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

premier plan is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for premier plan is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mje plɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for premier plan in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 premier plan, spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -P-L-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En termes de composition, ce qui est sur le devant de la scène principale.
  2. 2
    Ce qui est le plus important, qui est mis en avant, que l’on voit en premier.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "premier plan"?
"premier plan" is spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -P-L-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁə.mje plɑ̃\.
What does "premier plan" mean?
As a noun, "premier plan" means: En termes de composition, ce qui est sur le devant de la scène principale.
How do you pronounce "premier plan"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "premier plan" is \pʁə.mje plɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "premier plan" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.