Which to use
“placée” is an adjective and “placer” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,787
- “placée” frequency rank
- #3,351
- “placer” frequency rank
- 8138
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | placée | placer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de placé. | Situer ; mettre dans un lieu. |
Same sound, different letters: placée vs placer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. placée (CCVCVV) and placer (CCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - placée and placer
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: placée and placer carry the same recorded pronunciation, \pla.se\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8138, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
placée is recorded at frequency rank #4,787, classified as anadj, pronounced \pla.se\. placer is at rank #3,351, tagged as averb, pronounced \pla.se\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 8138, this pair ranks #420,989 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of placée vs placer
Shared letters: acelp. Private to "placée": é. Private to "placer": r.
"placée" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV · "placer" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- placer ← lpacer · palcer · placcer · placerr · placre · plaecr · plcaer · pllacer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "placée" and "placer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "placée" vs "placer" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "placée" / "placer". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "placée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "placer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #420,989 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "placée" and "placer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "palaces vs placée". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #420,989 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.