prendre le pli
The verdict
“prendre le pli” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’adapter : prendre l’habitude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prendre-le-pli · prendre le pli · French
prendre le pli · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre le pli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prendre le pli » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prendre le pli is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "S’adapter : prendre l’habitude.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for prendre le pli, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prendre le pli, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-E- -P-L-I.
Definition
- 1S’adapter : prendre l’habitude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prendre le pli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais je ne m’arrête jamais à des questions de cet ordre, ayant pris le pli, dès mon plus jeune âge, d’y voir « de mauvaises pensées ».
C’est épuisant, alors on a pris le pli de jouer huit mesures de ré bémol, puis huit mesures de mi bémol et ainsi de suite, sans se fouler. Sauf que Trane, lui, il joue tout, tout le temps, à toute allure.
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.