placèrent
\pla.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“placèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #89,001 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,001
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de placer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-placerent · placèrent · French
placèrent · rank #89,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,001
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH placarder
Nearest frequency peer: placarder (-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 « placèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piétinée
piétinée
11,003 corpus weight
- piétinés
piétinés
11,002 corpus weight
- placarder
placarder
11,001 corpus weight
- placèrent
placèrent
11,000 corpus weight
- plaideurs
plaideurs
10,999 corpus weight
- plantier
plantier
10,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « placèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | placèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pla.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « placèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
placèrent is uncommon French at frequency #89,001 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pla.sɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de placer.".
placèrent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is placèrent, spelled P-L-A-C-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de placer.
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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