French parsley
"french-parsley" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“French parsley” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - garden chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | French parsley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “French parsley” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
French parsley is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for French parsley in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is French parsley, spelled F-R-E-N-C-H- -P-A-R-S-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1garden chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)
- 2curly parsley (Petroselinum crispum)
- 3flat-leafed parsley, more commonly Italian parsley (Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum)
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “French parsley”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-R-E-N-C-H- -P-A-R-S-L-E-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.