playground
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
- plairas
plairas
19,486 corpus weight
- Plantagenêt
Plantagenêt
19,484 corpus weight
- plantules
plantules
19,483 corpus weight
- plasmatiques
plasmatiques
19,482 corpus weight
- playground
playground
19,481 corpus weight
- Poher
Poher
19,478 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « playground » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | playground |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « playground » en français
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
- 1Terrain de jeu, en particulier pour le basket-ball.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how playground appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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