être à sa place
\ɛ.tʁ‿a sa plas\
The verdict
“être à sa place” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agir conformément à ce qui est attendu, à ce que les autres pensent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etre-a-sa-place · être à sa place · French
être à sa place · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Ê" 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 | être à sa place |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.tʁ‿a sa plas\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « être à sa place » en français
Rare enough to double-check
être à sa place is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ.tʁ‿a sa plas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Agir conformément à ce qui est attendu, à ce que les autres pensent.".
No misspelling variants are generated for être à sa place in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is être à sa place, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -À- -S-A- -P-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Agir conformément à ce qui est attendu, à ce que les autres pensent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how être à sa place appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes nombreux à avoir cette sensation de ne pas faire assez, de ne pas être à notre place, de subir notre quotidien.
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.