placid
\plaˈsit\
The verdict
“placid” is uncommon French (frequency #70,112 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,112
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Placide, serein.
Corpus desk
Index FR-placid · placid · French
placid · rank #70,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,112
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH playoff
Nearest frequency peer: playoff (+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 « placid »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pileux
pileux
29,893 corpus weight
- pix
pix
29,892 corpus weight
- piétonnière
piétonnière
29,891 corpus weight
- placid
placid
29,889 corpus weight
- playoff
playoff
29,888 corpus weight
- pluriannuel…
pluriannuelle
29,886 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « placid » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | placid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \plaˈsit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « placid » en français
Rare enough to double-check
placid is uncommon French at frequency #70,112 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \plaˈsit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Placide, serein.".
Zero misspellings are on record for placid in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is placid, spelled P-L-A-C-I-D.
Definition
- 1Placide, serein.
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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