jeu de plateau
\ʒø də pla.to\
The verdict
“jeu de plateau” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Jeu de société.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeu de plateau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒø də pla.to\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeu de plateau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeu de plateau is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø də pla.to\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for jeu de plateau in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 jeu de plateau, spelled J-E-U- -D-E- -P-L-A-T-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu de société.
- 2Jeu de société se jouant sur plateau.
- 3Jeu de société moderne pour les distinguer des jeux de société traditionnels comme les échecs, les dames, le go, l’awalé…
- 4Jeu de société autre que jeu de rôle, jeu de figurines ou jeu de cartes à collectionner.
- 5Jeu de société avec des règles suffisamment évoluées pour être réservé à un public averti (c’est-à-dire trop compliqué pour les enfants ou les plus jeunes adolescents ou même pour les joueurs adultes seulement occasionnels).
- 6Jeu de société correspondant à toute combinaison entre les définitions précédentes.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-U- -D-E- -P-L-A-T-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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