plaçant
\pla.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“plaçant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,662. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,662
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de placer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-placant · plaçant · French
plaçant · rank #13,662 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,662
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plasma
Nearest frequency peer: plasma (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “plaçant”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- plaisait
plaisait
86,342 corpus weight
- plaisent
plaisent
86,341 corpus weight
- plasma
plasma
86,340 corpus weight
- plaçant
plaçant
86,339 corpus weight
- posait
posait
86,338 corpus weight
- prendrais
prendrais
86,336 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “plaçant” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaçant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pla.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “plaçant” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around plaçant (IPA \pla.sɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,662 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de placer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaçant, with forms such as "lpaçant", "palçant", and "plaaçnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "plant", "plaint", "pliant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is plaçant, spelled P-L-A-Ç-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de placer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaçant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les régions qui ne disposent que de craie, il y aurait évidemment un avantage économique à silicater toutes les routes, mais il y a lieu de se demander, toujours en se plaçant au point de vue des avantages économiques, à partir de quelle intensité de circulation la chaussée calcaire silicatée devrait faire place aux revêtements dits de luxe (béton, p…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaçant
- palçant
- plaaçnt
- placant
- plaçannt
- plaçantt
- plaçatn
- plaçnat
- pllaçant
- plçaant
- pplaçant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaçant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plaçant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "plaçant". Here's where to go from here.
- "plaçant" maps to 15 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "plant". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #13,662 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.