place
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#178
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
place is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu, endroit, espace qu’occupe ou que peut occuper une personne, une chose. Pronounced \plas\. It ranks #178 in French word frequency. Often confused with PLC and plan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | place |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plas\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for place is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plas\. Corpus data places it at rank #178 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for place, with forms such as "lpace", "palce", and "placce". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PLC", "plan", "plat", 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 place, spelled P-L-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu, endroit, espace qu’occupe ou que peut occuper une personne, une chose.
- 2Endroit, lieu, espace que doit occuper une personne ou une chose par rapport aux convenances, à la bienséance, etc.
- 3Logement qu’on occupe.
- 4Dignité, charge, emploi qu’une personne occupe.
- 5Rang qu’un écolier obtient dans un classement.
- 6Espace, lieu public, découvert et environné de bâtiments.
- 7Voie de circulation entourant éventuellement un tel espace.
- 8Endroit de stationnement public.
- 9Lieu où s’assemblent les agents de change, les banquiers, les négociants pour y traiter leurs affaires et y opérer leurs transactions. Bourse. Ensemble des négociants, des banquiers d’une ville.
- 10Ville de guerre ou de garnison.
- 11Classement dans une course donnant lieu à une allocation ou à rétribution des parieurs en simple placé, sans pour autant être gagnant.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpace,palce,placce,plaec,plcae,pllace,pplace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for place
Misspelling Variants of "place"
Frequency rank: #178 in French
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Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: