placette

\pla.sɛt\

/\pla.sɛt\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « placette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for placette
PropertyValue
Headwordplacette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pla.sɛt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#76,013
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « placette » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).placettetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « planisphère » (#76,014), « piègent » (#76,011), « planquent » (#76,015). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « placette » est au #76,013. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Petite place.
  2. 2
    Lieu d’un relevé statistique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how placette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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 […].
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "placette"?
"placette" is spelled P-L-A-C-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pla.sɛt\.
What does "placette" mean?
As a noun, "placette" means: Petite place.
How do you pronounce "placette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "placette" is \pla.sɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "placette", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list