de place en place
The verdict
“de place en place” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ici et là.
Corpus desk
Index FR-de-place-en-place · de place en place · French
de place en place · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | de place en place |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « de place en place » en français
Rare enough to double-check
de place en place is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ici et là.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for de place en place, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is de place en place, spelled D-E- -P-L-A-C-E- -E-N- -P-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ici et là.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how de place en place appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des groupes se formaient de place en place, entre lesquels erraient les femmes.
L'un d'eux, le plus petit, tira de sa poche un outil qui pouvait bien être un ciseau à froid et se mit avec ardeur à desceller la plaque en pratiquant des pesées de place en place.
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.