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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

plaque

/plæk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

Syllables
plaque
IPA
/plæk/
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch.

Countable

noun

A piece of flat metal with writing on it, attached to a building, monument, or other structure to remind people of a person or an event.

Countable

noun

A small card representing an amount of money, used for betting in casinos; a sort of gaming chip.

Countable

noun

A clearing in a bacterial lawn caused by a virus.

Countable

noun

In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system: any flat, thin musical instrument.

Countable

noun

A broad patch of abnormal tissue distinguishable from surrounding tissue, especially a broad papule (“inflamed, irritated patch”) on the skin.

Countable

noun

An abnormal accumulation of material in or on an organ of the body, often associated with disease.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

An abnormal accumulation of material in or on an organ of the body, often associated with disease.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French plaque (“plate, sheet (of metal); slab (of marble); bacteria on teeth”), from French plaquer, Middle French plaquer (“to plate”), from Middle Dutch placken (“to patch, beat metal into a thin plate”), from placke (“disk, patch, stain”), from Old Dutch *plagga (“patch”), from Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“patch”). The word is cognate with Middle Low German placke, plagge (“small stain, scraps, rags, thin grass”), German Placken (“spot, patch”), Saterland Frisian plak, plakke (“a blow, slap”), Swedish plagg (“clothing, garment”). Compare plack.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: plaquer, placken, *plagga, *plaggą

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /plæk/
  • British English: /plæk/

Usage

Inflected Forms

plaques (plural)

Derived Forms

antiplaque immunoplaque intraplaque megaplaque microplaque nonplaque periplaque plaqueless plaquelike plaquette plaquing uroplaque

Phrases

blue plaque mucoid plaque

Frequently Paired Words

placard placula plaquet

Synonyms

brass memorial tablet

Rhymes With

back black attack track lack jack pack mac crack hack stack pac

Questions

How do you pronounce plaque?
The recorded pronunciation is /plæk/.
What does plaque mean?
Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch.
Where does plaque come from?
It is traced to French.

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