déplaça

\de.pla.sa\

/\de.pla.sa\/ verb

The verdict

“déplaça” is uncommon French (frequency #75,632 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,632
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de déplacer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-deplaca · déplaça · French

déplaça · rank #75,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,632
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dépeçage

Nearest frequency peer: dépeçage (-1 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « déplaça »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déplaça » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for déplaça
PropertyValue
Headworddéplaça
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.pla.sa\
Letters7
Frequency rank#75,632
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « déplaça » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).déplaçatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « dépeçage » (#75,631), « déplaçons » (#75,633), « dépendons » (#75,630). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « déplaça » est au #75,632. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

déplaça is uncommon French at frequency #75,632 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pla.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de déplacer.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for déplaça, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is déplaça, spelled D-É-P-L-A-Ç-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de déplacer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how déplaça appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les 7 nouvelles travées furent montées à côté des anciennes, et l’on déplaça les 2 ponts en même temps ; il fallut 23 minutes pour déclisser les rails extrêmes, 24 minutes pour riper les 2 ponts et 10 minutes pour faire l’essai au moyen de 2 locomotives.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "déplaça"?
"déplaça" is spelled D-É-P-L-A-Ç-A. The IPA pronunciation is \de.pla.sa\.
What does "déplaça" mean?
As a verb, "déplaça" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de déplacer.
How do you pronounce "déplaça"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "déplaça" is \de.pla.sa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "déplaça" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "déplaça", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list