replacement
\ʁə.plas.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“replacement” is uncommon French (frequency #62,583 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,583
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de replacer, remise en place.
Corpus desk
Index FR-replacement · replacement · French
replacement · rank #62,583 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,583
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repensée
Nearest frequency peer: repensée (-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 « replacement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Renner
Renner
37,421 corpus weight
- renversa
renversa
37,420 corpus weight
- repensée
repensée
37,419 corpus weight
- replacement
replacement
37,418 corpus weight
- reptiliens
reptiliens
37,417 corpus weight
- republié
republié
37,416 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « replacement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | replacement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.plas.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « replacement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
replacement is uncommon French at frequency #62,583 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.plas.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de replacer, remise en place.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for replacement, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is replacement, spelled R-E-P-L-A-C-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de replacer, remise en place.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how replacement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le club assure de façon bénévole le replacement de chiens abandonnés.
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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