placette
\pla.sɛt\
The verdict
“placette” is uncommon French (frequency #76,013 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,013
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite place.
Corpus desk
Index FR-placette · placette · French
placette · rank #76,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,013
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planisphère
Nearest frequency peer: planisphère (+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 « placette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pivotante
pivotante
23,991 corpus weight
- piègent
piègent
23,990 corpus weight
- placette
placette
23,988 corpus weight
- planisphère
planisphère
23,987 corpus weight
- planquent
planquent
23,986 corpus weight
- planquée
planquée
23,985 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « placette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | placette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pla.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « placette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
placette is uncommon French at frequency #76,013 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pla.sɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for placette, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 placette, spelled P-L-A-C-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite place.
- 2Lieu d’un relevé statistique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how placette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des adolescents parmi des mobylettes, devant le bistrot de la placette, c’est leur quartier général, bien connu de la police qui pour l’instant contrôle les papiers. Sans raison, routine. Ça rassure la population […].
Chaque placette a fait l’objet d’un prélèvement de sol pour analyse en laboratoire et d’un inventaire floristique chronométré le plus complet possible (par 1 seul opérateur).
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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