played
\ˈpleɪd\
The verdict
“played” is uncommon French (frequency #73,443 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,443
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit de play.
Corpus desk
Index FR-played · played · French
played · rank #73,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,443
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Plaute
Nearest frequency peer: Plaute (-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 « played »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pinky
pinky
26,561 corpus weight
- Platz
Platz
26,560 corpus weight
- Plaute
Plaute
26,559 corpus weight
- played
played
26,558 corpus weight
- poignantes
poignantes
26,557 corpus weight
- Pomona
Pomona
26,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « played » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | played |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈpleɪd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « played » en français
Rare enough to double-check
played is uncommon French at frequency #73,443 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈpleɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for played in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is played, spelled P-L-A-Y-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit de play.
- 2Participe passé de play.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).