placarder
\pla.kaʁ.de\
The verdict
“placarder” is uncommon French (frequency #89,000 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,000
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre, afficher un placard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-placarder · placarder · French
placarder · rank #89,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,000
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piétinés
Nearest frequency peer: piétinés (-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 « placarder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pison
pison
11,004 corpus weight
- piétinée
piétinée
11,003 corpus weight
- piétinés
piétinés
11,002 corpus weight
- placarder
placarder
11,001 corpus weight
- placèrent
placèrent
11,000 corpus weight
- plaideurs
plaideurs
10,999 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « placarder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | placarder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pla.kaʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « placarder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
placarder is uncommon French at frequency #89,000 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pla.kaʁ.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
placarder has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is placarder, spelled P-L-A-C-A-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre, afficher un placard.
- 2Couvrir de placards, d’imprimés.
- 3Publier une critique contre quelqu'un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how placarder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On vient de placarder une ordonnance de police.
Lorsque, le 1ᵉʳ août 1914, l’ordre de mobilisation est placardé dans toutes les mairies, Joffre choisit aussitôt d’installer son état-major à Vitry.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).