placard
\pla.kaʁ\
The verdict
“placard” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #7,879 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,879
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Assemblage de menuiserie, qui s’élève au-dessus d’une porte et va ordinairement jusqu’au plafond.
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 | placard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pla.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “placard” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for placard is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for placard, with forms such as "lpacard", "palcard", and "plaacrd". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "placer", "placera", "placards", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is placard, spelled P-L-A-C-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Assemblage de menuiserie, qui s’élève au-dessus d’une porte et va ordinairement jusqu’au plafond.
- 2Armoire pratiquée dans un enfoncement de mur.
- 3Meuble ou petite pièce, fermé par une porte et destiné au rangement.
- 4Ce qu’on plaque, ce qui est plaqué, placage.
- 5Numéro de parcelle, peint ou cloué régulièrement le long de ses limites.
- 6Éruption cutanée.
- 7Prison.
- 8Par 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.
- 9Par analogie avec le meuble où sont précieusement stockées des archives qui ne voient jamais le jour, lourd secret, chose secrète.
- 10Secret personnel autour de son homosexualité, de sa bisexualité, de sa transitude ou de son autre identité queer non révélée.
- 11Cuite.
- 12Somme versée à un pourvoyeur pour l’achat d’une prostituée ; d’où le surnom de placardeur pour le pourvoyeur.
- 13Emplacement de forme rectangulaire servant à accrocher sur un uniforme des barrettes lors de cérémonies officielles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpacard,palcard,plaacrd,placadr,placardd,placarrd,placcard,placrad,plcaard,pllacard,pplacard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of placard - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “placard”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-L-A-C-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pla.kaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “placer” - see the side-by-side comparison. placard vs placer
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.