par excellence

/[paːɐ̯ ɛksəˈlɑ̃ːs]/ adv

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

par excellence is anGermanadv. It means: in perfekter Vollendung, schlechthin Pronounced [paːɐ̯ ɛksəˈlɑ̃ːs].

Key facts for par excellence
PropertyValue
Headwordpar excellence
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdv
IPA[paːɐ̯ ɛksəˈlɑ̃ːs]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

par excellence is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for par excellence is 14 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paːɐ̯ ɛksəˈlɑ̃ːs]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "in perfekter Vollendung, schlechthin".

No misspelling variants are generated for par excellence in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is par excellence, spelled P-A-R- -E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    in perfekter Vollendung, schlechthin

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "par excellence"?
"par excellence" is spelled P-A-R- -E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is [paːɐ̯ ɛksəˈlɑ̃ːs].
What does "par excellence" mean?
As an adv, "par excellence" means: in perfekter Vollendung, schlechthin
How do you pronounce "par excellence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "par excellence" is [paːɐ̯ ɛksəˈlɑ̃ːs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "par excellence" come from?
"par excellence" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.