playground

noun

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The verdict

“playground” is uncommon French (frequency #80,520 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,520
frequency rank, French
248,534
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Terrain de jeu, en particulier pour le basket-ball.

Key facts for playground
PropertyValue
Headwordplayground
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#80,520
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “playground” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). playground lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

playground is uncommon French at frequency #80,520 among 248,534 “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.

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?
"playground" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “playground”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-L-A-Y-G-R-O-U-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list