placentaire
\pla.sɛ̃.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“placentaire” is uncommon French (frequency #77,790 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,790
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au placenta.
Corpus desk
Index FR-placentaire · placentaire · French
placentaire · rank #77,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,790
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planchon
Nearest frequency peer: planchon (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « placentaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pimentée
pimentée
22,214 corpus weight
- Pimkie
Pimkie
22,213 corpus weight
- placentaire
placentaire
22,211 corpus weight
- planchon
planchon
22,210 corpus weight
- planner
planner
22,209 corpus weight
- platonicien
platonicien
22,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « placentaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | placentaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pla.sɛ̃.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « placentaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
placentaire is uncommon French at frequency #77,790 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pla.sɛ̃.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for placentaire, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is placentaire, spelled P-L-A-C-E-N-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au placenta.
- 2Qui possède un placenta.
- 3Qui rappelle un placenta.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how placentaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’hématome rétro-placentaire est une complication très grave de la grossesse, mettant en jeu la vie de la mère et du fœtus en étant responsable d’une hémorragie parfois massive développée entre le placenta et l’utérus.
Au cours de la grossesse, l’estriol est produit en quantité massive par l’unité fœto-placentaire.
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); 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).