place de village

\plas də vi.laʒ\

/\plas də vi.laʒ\/ noun

The verdict

“place de village” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Place publique au centre d’un village, généralement à proximité de l’église.

Key facts for place de village
PropertyValue
Headwordplace de village
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\plas də vi.laʒ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “place de village” sits in French frequency

place de village falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

place de village is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plas də vi.laʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Place publique au centre d’un village, généralement à proximité de l’église.".

place de village has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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. The correct French form is place de village, spelled P-L-A-C-E- -D-E- -V-I-L-L-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Place publique au centre d’un village, généralement à proximité de l’église.

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "place de village"?
"place de village" is spelled P-L-A-C-E- -D-E- -V-I-L-L-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \plas də vi.laʒ\.
What does "place de village" mean?
As a noun, "place de village" means: Place publique au centre d’un village, généralement à proximité de l’église.
How do you pronounce "place de village"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "place de village" is \plas də vi.laʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "place de village" come from?
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Using “place de village”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-L-A-C-E- -D-E- -V-I-L-L-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \plas də vi.laʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list