playground

noun

The verdict

“playground” is uncommon French (frequency #80,520 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,520
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terrain de jeu, en particulier pour le basket-ball.

Corpus desk

Index FR-playground · playground · French

playground · rank #80,520 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,520
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plasmatiques

Nearest frequency peer: plasmatiques (-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 « playground »

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 « playground » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for playground
PropertyValue
Headwordplayground
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#80,520
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « playground » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.playgroundtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « plasmatiques » (#80,519), « plantules » (#80,518), « Plantagenêt » (#80,517). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « playground » est au #80,520. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

playground is uncommon French at frequency #80,520 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Terrain de jeu, en particulier pour le basket-ball.".

playground doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is playground, spelled P-L-A-Y-G-R-O-U-N-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Terrain de jeu, en particulier pour le basket-ball.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Romain Froquet, artiste plasticien à l’origine du playground près des Halles, n’a, lui, pas connu de contraintes pour transformer le terrain près du jardin Nelson-Mandela et lui apposer sa signature unique : « J’ai impliqué pas mal d’enfants dans le projet, les commerçants du quartier également, pour que ce lieu appartienne à tout le monde. C’est la dimen…

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 "playground"?
"playground" is spelled P-L-A-Y-G-R-O-U-N-D.
What does "playground" mean?
As a noun, "playground" means: Terrain de jeu, en particulier pour le basket-ball.
What language does "playground" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list