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planchette.

A small plank.

10 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/plænˈʃɛt/
  1. A small plank.

  2. A type of Ouija board. (A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes interpreted as of oracular or supernatural import.)

  3. A plane table.

  4. One of the round colored dots pressed into paper money, used to distinguish authentic currency from counterfeit currency.

    Canada
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French planchette. By surface analysis, French planche + -ette.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.