placard
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #7,879 in French
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