Which to use
“placée” and “plaqué” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,787
- “placée” frequency rank
- #16,210
- “plaqué” frequency rank
- 20997
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | placée | plaqué |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de placé. | Mis à plat. |
Where the eye mixes placée and plaqué
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. placée and plaqué follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCVV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: placée vs plaqué
A purely visual mix-up. placée (\pla.se\) and plaqué (\pla.ke\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20997, 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\. plaqué is at rank #16,210, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pla.ke\.
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 20997, this pair ranks #365,394 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of placée vs plaqué
Shared letters: alpé. Private to "placée": ce. Private to "plaqué": qu.
"placée" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV · "plaqué" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "placée" and "plaqué" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "placée" or "plaqué" show up more?
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- Full dictionary entry for "placée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "plaqué" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #365,394 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "placée" and "plaqué" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pasque vs plaqué". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #365,394 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.