JLPT N1Spoken and writtenModest

といったところだ・というところだabout …, at most

A modest estimate: "about that much, and no more". The number or level before it is small or middling in your eyes, and you are saying that this is as far as it goes.

この規き模ぼの修しゅう理りなら、費ひ用ようは高たかくても十じゅう五ご万まん円えんといったところだ。

For a repair of this size, the cost should be about 150,000 yen at most.

会かい議ぎは月つきに二に回かい、多おおくても三さん回かいというところだ。

We meet about twice a month, three times at most.

How to form it

Number or level + といったところだ／というところだ

The two mean the same. A plain-form verb can come before it too. Polite といったところです; with friends it shrinks to ってとこ.

Before it: A small number or a middling level: 千せん円えん, 三さん人にん, 七なな割わり, まあまあ. Often with せいぜい, 多おおくても, よくても or まだ.
Tone: Cool and modest. You are sizing something up, not boasting or marvelling.
Where you'll meet it: Conversation, interviews, commentary and reports alike.

In use

準じゅん備びは順じゅん調ちょうだが、完かん成せい度どはまだ七なな割わりといったところだ。

Preparations are going smoothly, but we are still only about seventy percent done.

今いまの装そう備びでは、行いけても八はち合ごう目めというところだ。

With the equipment we have, the eighth station is about as far as we could get.

独どく学がくで半はん年としなら、簡かん単たんなメールが書かけるというところだ。

Six months of studying on your own gets you about as far as writing a simple email.

After a verb.

A

駅えきまで歩あるいてどのくらいかかる？

How long does it take to walk to the station?

B

十じゅう五ご分ふんってとこかな。そんなに遠とおくないよ。

Fifteen minutes or so, I'd say. It isn't that far.

It plays the number down

くらい only makes a number rough. といったところだ adds that you don't think it is much.

時じ給きゅうは千せん円えんくらいだ。

The pay is about 1,000 yen an hour.

Just the rough figure.

時じ給きゅうは千せん円えんといったところだ。

The pay is about 1,000 yen an hour, no more.

The rough figure, and it isn't much.

So it doesn't go with a figure that amazes you.

Not said: このアルバムは百ひゃく万まん枚まいも売うれたといったところだ。

(This album sold as many as a million copies.)

Just 百ひゃく万まん枚まいも売うれた.

Close neighbours

くらい・ぐらいN5

Plain "about" after an amount, with no view on whether that is a lot or a little.

参さん加か者しゃは四よん十じゅう人にんぐらいでした。

There were about forty participants.

にすぎないN2

"No more than": it states a fact and cuts it down to size. Nothing is being estimated.

この数すう字じは全ぜん体たいの一いち部ぶにすぎない。

This figure is only one part of the whole.

ところだN4

Straight after a verb, with no という, it is about timing: about to, in the middle of, just done.

これから晩ばんご飯はんを食たべるところです。

I'm just about to have dinner.

Check yourself

1What result does this predict?

今年ことしのチームは、よくて三さん位いといったところだ。

Choose an answer to see why.

2Which sentence sounds natural?

Choose an answer to see why.

More detail

After a short list it sums up: that is about all there is.

朝ちょう食しょくはパンとコーヒーといったところだ。

Breakfast is bread and coffee, and that's about it.

More sentences

売うり上あげは前ぜん年ねん並なみで、よくても二にパーセント増ぞうといったところだ。

Sales are level with last year; at best they will be up about two percent.

一いっ週しゅう間かん作さ業ぎょうしたが、全ぜん体たいの進すすみ具ぐ合あいはまだ六ろく割わりというところだ。

We have been at it for a week, but overall we are still only about sixty percent of the way there.

この雨あめなら、試し合あい開かい始しは一いち時じ間かん遅おくれというところだろう。

With this rain, the match will probably start about an hour late.

初しょ日にちの来らい場じょう者しゃは、千せん人にん前ぜん後ごといったところだった。

Attendance on the first day came to a thousand or so.