placée
\pla.se\
The verdict
“placée” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,787. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,787
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de placé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-placee · placée · French
placée · rank #4,787 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,787
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pile
Nearest frequency peer: pile (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « placée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- musiciens
musiciens
95,217 corpus weight
- nés
nés
95,216 corpus weight
- pile
pile
95,215 corpus weight
- placée
placée
95,214 corpus weight
- prenait
prenait
95,213 corpus weight
- prestation
prestation
95,212 corpus weight
What this shows « placée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | placée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pla.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « placée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around placée (IPA \pla.se\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,787 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de placé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for placée, with forms such as "lpacée", "palcée", and "placcée". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plage", "plate", "plaie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 placée, spelled P-L-A-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de placé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpacée
- palcée
- placcée
- placee
- placeé
- plaéce
- plcaée
- pllacée
- pplacée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of placée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "placée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).