emplacement

/\ɑ̃.plas.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,146

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

emplacement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espace de terrain considéré comme propre à y construire un bâtiment, à y tracer un jardin, à y exercer un commerce ou une industrie, etc. Pronounced \ɑ̃.plas.mɑ̃\. It ranks #4,146 in French word frequency. Often confused with espacement and emplacements.

Key facts for emplacement
PropertyValue
Headwordemplacement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.plas.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#4,146
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of emplacement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for emplacement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.plas.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,146 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for emplacement, with forms such as "emlpacement", "emmplacement", and "empalcement". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "espacement", "emplacements", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is emplacement, spelled E-M-P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espace de terrain considéré comme propre à y construire un bâtiment, à y tracer un jardin, à y exercer un commerce ou une industrie, etc.
  2. 2
    Lieu où se situe quelque chose ou quelqu’un.
  3. 3
    Lieu où se situait quelque chose qui a disparu.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emlpacement,emmplacement,empalcement,emplaccement,emplaceemnt,emplacemennt,emplacementt,emplacemetn,emplacemment,emplacemnet,emplacmeent,emplaecment,emplcaement,empllacement,empplacement,epmlacement,meplacement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for emplacement

Misspelling Variants of "emplacement"

emlpacement11emmplacement12empalcement11emplaccement12emplaceemnt11emplacemennt12emplacementt12emplacemetn11
Misspelling Variants of "emplacement"

Frequency rank: #4,146 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "emplacement"?
"emplacement" is spelled E-M-P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.plas.mɑ̃\.
What does "emplacement" mean?
As a noun, "emplacement" means: Espace de terrain considéré comme propre à y construire un bâtiment, à y tracer un jardin, à y exercer un commerce ou une industrie, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "emplacement"?
"emplacement" is commonly confused with "espacement", "emplacements". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "emplacement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "emplacement" is \ɑ̃.plas.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "emplacement" come from?
"emplacement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.