placard

/\pla.kaʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,879

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

placard is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblage de menuiserie, qui s’élève au-dessus d’une porte et va ordinairement jusqu’au plafond. Pronounced \pla.kaʁ\. It ranks #7,879 in French word frequency. Often confused with placer and placera.

Key facts for placard
PropertyValue
Headwordplacard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pla.kaʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,879
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for placard is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pla.kaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,879 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for placard, with forms such as "lpacard", "palcard", and "plaacrd". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "placer", "placera", "placards", 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 placard, spelled P-L-A-C-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assemblage de menuiserie, qui s’élève au-dessus d’une porte et va ordinairement jusqu’au plafond.
  2. 2
    Armoire pratiquée dans un enfoncement de mur.
  3. 3
    Meuble ou petite pièce, fermé par une porte et destiné au rangement.
  4. 4
    Ce qu’on plaque, ce qui est plaqué, placage.
  5. 5
    Numéro de parcelle, peint ou cloué régulièrement le long de ses limites.
  6. 6
    Éruption cutanée.
  7. 7
    Prison.
  8. 8
    Par analogie avec le meuble où l’on remise les choses pour une longue période pour parfois les y oublier, purgatoire, mise à l’écart, le plus souvent professionnelle.
  9. 9
    Par analogie avec le meuble où sont précieusement stockées des archives qui ne voient jamais le jour, lourd secret, chose secrète.
  10. 10
    Secret personnel autour de son homosexualité, de sa bisexualité, de sa transitude ou de son autre identité queer non révélée.
  11. 11
    Cuite.
  12. 12
    Somme versée à un pourvoyeur pour l’achat d’une prostituée ; d’où le surnom de placardeur pour le pourvoyeur.
  13. 13
    Emplacement de forme rectangulaire servant à accrocher sur un uniforme des barrettes lors de cérémonies officielles.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: lpacard,palcard,plaacrd,placadr,placardd,placarrd,placcard,placrad,plcaard,pllacard,pplacard

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for placard

Misspelling Variants of "placard"

lpacard7palcard7plaacrd7placadr7placardd8placarrd8placcard8placrad7
Misspelling Variants of "placard"

Frequency rank: #7,879 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "placard"?
"placard" is spelled P-L-A-C-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \pla.kaʁ\.
What does "placard" mean?
As a noun, "placard" means: Assemblage de menuiserie, qui s’élève au-dessus d’une porte et va ordinairement jusqu’au plafond.
What words are commonly confused with "placard"?
"placard" is commonly confused with "placer", "placera", "placards". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "placard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "placard" is \pla.kaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "placard" come from?
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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.