praça
\pɾˈa.sɐ\
The verdict
“praça” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esplanade, place, rond-point.
Corpus desk
Index FR-praca · praça · French
praça · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | praça |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɾˈa.sɐ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « praça » en français
Rare enough to double-check
praça is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɾˈa.sɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for praça in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is praça, spelled P-R-A-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1Esplanade, place, rond-point.
- 2Vente aux enchères.
- 3Soldat.
- 4Marché, lieu public où des marchandises sont achetées et proposées à la vente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how praça appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eu estive lá. Havia umas duzentas a trezentas pessoas na praça em frente do teatro, e à volta delas outros tantos OMON, que são o equivalente russo da nossa polícia de choque, munidos de capacetes, escudos e pesadas matracas.
Progresso era a palavra que mais se ouvia em Ilhéus e em Itabuna naquele tempo. (...) Os ilheenses repetiam-na a propósito das novas ruas, das praças ajardinadas, dos edifícios no centro comercial e das residências modernas na praia, das oficinas do Diário de Ilhéus, das marinetes saindo pela manhã e a tarde para Itabuna, dos caminhões transportando cacau…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.