placide
\pla.sid\
The verdict
“placide” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,999. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,999
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est doux, paisible, calme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-placide · placide · French
placide · rank #36,999 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,999
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaignante
Nearest frequency peer: plaignante (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “placide”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pillent
pillent
63,005 corpus weight
- pilotis
pilotis
63,004 corpus weight
- placide
placide
63,002 corpus weight
- plaignante
plaignante
63,001 corpus weight
- plombiers
plombiers
63,000 corpus weight
- polymères
polymères
62,999 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “placide” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | placide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pla.sid\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “placide” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around placide (IPA \pla.sid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,999 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est doux, paisible, calme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for placide, with forms such as "lpacide", "palcide", and "placcide". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "plaie", "plaid", "plaire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is placide, spelled P-L-A-C-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est doux, paisible, calme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how placide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jamais la droite ne se mouvait sans que l’œil droit examinât les circonstances extérieures avec cette rapidité placide particulière au voleur et à l’espion.
Tu vois comme c’est placide, une vache… Il n’y a pas de danger…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpacide
- palcide
- placcide
- placdie
- placidde
- placied
- plaicde
- plcaide
- pllacide
- pplacide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of placide - 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 "placide", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "placide" maps to 11 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "plaie". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #36,999 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.