placenta
\pla.sɛ̃.ta\
The verdict
“placenta” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,400. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,400
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organe charnu et spongieux qui est à l’extrémité du cordon ombilical, et par lequel le fœtus s’attache à l’utérus et reçoit les nutriments que lui fournit le corps de sa mère, formé par le chorion ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-placenta · placenta · French
placenta · rank #33,400 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,400
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaignants
Nearest frequency peer: plaignants (+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 « placenta »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pendent
pendent
66,605 corpus weight
- Perm
Perm
66,604 corpus weight
- perroquets
perroquets
66,603 corpus weight
- placenta
placenta
66,601 corpus weight
- plaignants
plaignants
66,600 corpus weight
- plaisantes
plaisantes
66,599 corpus weight
What this shows « placenta » 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 | placenta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pla.sɛ̃.ta\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « placenta »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around placenta (IPA \pla.sɛ̃.ta\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,400 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for placenta, with forms such as "lpacenta", "palcenta", and "placcenta". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "placera", "plaçant", "placent", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is placenta, spelled P-L-A-C-E-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1Organe charnu et spongieux qui est à l’extrémité du cordon ombilical, et par lequel le fœtus s’attache à l’utérus et reçoit les nutriments que lui fournit le corps de sa mère, formé par le chorion du fœtus et la décidue de l'utérus maternel.
- 2Partie interne de l’ovaire à laquelle sont attachés les ovules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how placenta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma petite vieille vivait encore, nous devions aller souper chez elle la semaine prochaine, tu te rappelles, mais il y a eu cet accident, il y a vingt ans, elle est loin, mais à la fois si intime, passée dans mes placentas, dans mon lait, mes chansons, dans mes veilles […]…
On nous apporta ensuite des ananas et des pacaïs. Ce dernier fruit [l’inga], qui a la forme d'un fourreau de sabre, est une gousse d’un mètre et demi de long dont les graines sont enveloppées d'un placenta blanc et filandreux, mais extrêmement sucré.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpacenta
- palcenta
- placcenta
- placenat
- placennta
- placentta
- placetna
- placneta
- plaecnta
- plcaenta
- pllacenta
- pplacenta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of placenta - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).