Which to use
“placées” and “placés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,533
- “placées” frequency rank
- #5,062
- “placés” frequency rank
- 14595
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | placées | placés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de placé. | Masculin pluriel de placé. |
Same sound, different letters: placées vs placés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - placées and placés
This is the hard kind. placées and placés are pronounced identically (\pla.se\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14595, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
placées is recorded at frequency rank #9,533, classified as anadj, pronounced \pla.se\. placés is at rank #5,062, tagged as anadj, 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 14595, this pair ranks #395,991 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of placées vs placés
Shared letters: aclpsé. Private to "placées": e. Private to "placés": -.
"placées" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVC · "placés" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "placées" and "placés" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "placées" vs "placés" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "placées" / "placés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "placées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "placés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #395,991 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "placées" and "placés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "palaces vs placées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #395,991 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.