plaçaient
\pla.sɛ\
The verdict
“plaçaient” is uncommon French (frequency #60,282 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,282
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de placer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-placaient · plaçaient · French
plaçaient · rank #60,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,282
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plasmatique
Nearest frequency peer: plasmatique (-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 « plaçaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pitons
pitons
39,722 corpus weight
- plaquées
plaquées
39,721 corpus weight
- plasmatique
plasmatique
39,720 corpus weight
- plaçaient
plaçaient
39,719 corpus weight
- ple
ple
39,718 corpus weight
- plombières
plombières
39,717 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plaçaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaçaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pla.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plaçaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plaçaient is uncommon French at frequency #60,282 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pla.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de placer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for plaçaient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 plaçaient, spelled P-L-A-Ç-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de placer.
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.
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