placer
French, verb/pla.se/
placer is a French verb meaning “to place (to put in a specific location)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Situer ; mettre dans un lieu”.
What does placer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to place (to put in a specific location)
- 2
to seat (to put an object into a place where it will rest)
- 3
to place (to earn a given spot in a competition)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Situer ; mettre dans un lieu. 2. Positionner dans une série. 3. Indiquer les places, dans une cérémonie, dans une assemblée, en parlant de celui qui est chargé de les donner. 4. Vendre pour le compte d’autrui.
noun: 1. Gisement, emplacement où l’on trouve de l’or ou des matières précieuses dans des sédiments alluviaux.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of placer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- plaçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- placé participle past
- place first-person indicative present
- places indicative present second-person
- plaçons first-person indicative plural
- placez indicative plural present
- placent indicative plural present
- plaçais first-person imperfect indicative
- plaçait imperfect indicative singular
- placions first-person imperfect indicative
- placiez imperfect indicative plural
- plaçaient imperfect indicative plural
- plaçai first-person historic indicative
- plaças historic indicative past
- plaça historic indicative past
- plaçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce placer?
- /pla.se/
- \pla.se\
- [pla˦se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to placer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is placer in French?
placer appears 23 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).