remplacer
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,245
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
remplacer is aFrenchverb. It means: Succéder à quelqu’un dans une place, dans un emploi. Pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pla.se\. It ranks #2,245 in French word frequency. Often confused with replacé and replacer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remplacer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.pla.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for remplacer is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑ̃.pla.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,245 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for remplacer, with forms such as "ermplacer", "remlpacer", and "remmplacer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "replacé", "replacer", "remplacés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is remplacer, spelled R-E-M-P-L-A-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Succéder à quelqu’un dans une place, dans un emploi.
- 2Remplir de façon provisoire le rôle, les devoirs, les fonctions de quelqu’un.
- 3Faire à la place de quelqu’un le temps de service militaire imposé par la loi.
- 4Tenir lieu d’une personne, d’une chose.
- 5Donner pour successeur ; mettre à sa place.
- 6Mettre une chose à la place d’une autre.
- 7Mettre quelque chose de neuf à la place de quelque chose qui a été usé, détruit ou perdu.
- 8Prendre la place l’un de l’autre, successivement ou alternativement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ermplacer,remlpacer,remmplacer,rempalcer,remplaccer,remplacerr,remplacre,remplaecr,remplcaer,rempllacer,rempplacer,repmlacer,rmeplacer,rremplacer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for remplacer
Misspelling Variants of "remplacer"
Frequency rank: #2,245 in French
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