placage

/\pla.kaʒ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#48,105

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

placage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de plaquer. Pronounced \pla.kaʒ\. Often confused with place and plage.

Key facts for placage
PropertyValue
Headwordplacage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pla.kaʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#48,105
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for placage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pla.kaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #48,105 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for placage, with forms such as "lpacage", "palcage", and "plaacge". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "place", "plage", "placée", and more, 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 placage, spelled P-L-A-C-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de plaquer.
  2. 2
    Ouvrage de menuiserie ou d’ébénisterie, fait de bois précieux scié en feuilles minces qui sont appliquées sur d’autre bois de moindre prix.
  3. 3
    Doublage visant à renforcer un assemblage.
  4. 4
    Ouvrages de l’esprit qui semblent faits de morceaux rapportés.
  5. 5
    Action de faire tomber le porteur du ballon.
  6. 6
    Action de faire tomber l’adversaire et de le maintenir dos au sol.
  7. 7
    Action qui consiste à recouvrir un métal ordinaire d'une mince couche de métal précieux, or, platine, argent
  8. 8
    Action qui consiste à recouvrir un métal ordinaire d'une mince couche de métal précieux, or, platine, argent

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: lpacage,palcage,plaacge,placaeg,placagge,placcage,placgae,plcaage,pllacage,pplacage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for placage

Misspelling Variants of "placage"

lpacage7palcage7plaacge7placaeg7placagge8placcage8placgae7plcaage7
Misspelling Variants of "placage"

Frequency rank: #48,105 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "placage"?
"placage" is spelled P-L-A-C-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pla.kaʒ\.
What does "placage" mean?
As a noun, "placage" means: Action de plaquer.
What words are commonly confused with "placage"?
"placage" is commonly confused with "place", "plage", "placée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "placage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "placage" is \pla.kaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "placage" come from?
"placage" 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.