placement
\plas.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“placement” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,640. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,640
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de placer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-placement · placement · French
placement · rank #6,640 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,640
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pharmacie
Nearest frequency peer: pharmacie (-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 « placement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- passeport
passeport
93,364 corpus weight
- phare
phare
93,363 corpus weight
- pharmacie
pharmacie
93,362 corpus weight
- placement
placement
93,361 corpus weight
- planches
planches
93,360 corpus weight
- ports
ports
93,359 corpus weight
What this shows « placement » 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 | placement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plas.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « placement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around placement (IPA \plas.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,640 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for placement, with forms such as "lpacement", "palcement", and "placcement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "placent", "placements", "paiement", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is placement, spelled P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de placer.
- 2Vente ou emploi.
- 3Action de placer de l’argent ; argent placé.
- 4Opération de la phase d’étude qui consiste à définir l’emplacement de chaque élément d’un circuit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how placement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le placement d’une bibliothèque.
Le placement des convives autour d’une table.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpacement
- palcement
- placcement
- placeemnt
- placemennt
- placementt
- placemetn
- placemment
- placemnet
- placmeent
- plaecment
- plcaement
- pllacement
- pplacement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of placement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).