placez
\pla.se\
The verdict
“placez” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,373. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,373
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de placer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-placez · placez · French
placez · rank #22,373 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,373
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pier
Nearest frequency peer: Pier (-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 « placez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- peuplement
peuplement
77,631 corpus weight
- Pier
Pier
77,629 corpus weight
- placez
placez
77,628 corpus weight
- plaquettes
plaquettes
77,627 corpus weight
- polarisation
polarisation
77,626 corpus weight
- policy
policy
77,625 corpus weight
What this shows « placez » 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 | placez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pla.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « placez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around placez (IPA \pla.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,373 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for placez, with forms such as "lpacez", "palcez", and "placcez". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plage", "plate", "plaie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is placez, spelled P-L-A-C-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de placer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de placer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how placez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous me placez cuisinière chez Madame, vous me prenez pour dix ans, j’ai mille francs de gages, vous payez les cinq dernières années d’avance (un denier-à-Dieu, quoi !)
Placez vos mains autour de l’orange sans la toucher et mettez-vous en résonance avec elle en concentrant votre attention dessus. Définissez votre intention comme étant de « désénergétiser » l’orange, c’est-à-dire en la dépouillant en quelque sorte de sa charge énergétique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpacez
- palcez
- placcez
- placezz
- placze
- plaecz
- plcaez
- pllacez
- pplacez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of placez - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "placez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).