transplanter
\tʁɑ̃s.plɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“transplanter” is uncommon French (frequency #76,184 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,184
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ôter une plante, un arbre de l’endroit où il est et le replanter dans un autre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transplanter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.plɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “transplanter” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
transplanter is uncommon French at frequency #76,184 among 164,488 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɑ̃s.plɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for transplanter, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is transplanter, spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-L-A-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ôter une plante, un arbre de l’endroit où il est et le replanter dans un autre.
- 2Prélever un organe d’un individu donneur, pour le greffer sur un autre.
- 3Faire passer, transporter des personnes ou certaines choses d’un milieu dans un autre, pour les y établir.
This word in other languages
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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Using “transplanter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-A-N-S-P-L-A-N-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁɑ̃s.plɑ̃.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.