parle
"parle" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“parle” is uncommon English (frequency #70,993 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,993
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parley; talk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-parle · parle · English
parle · rank #70,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,993
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH parishad
Nearest frequency peer: parishad (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “parle”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pantries
pantries
29,012 corpus weight
- parishad
parishad
29,009 corpus weight
- parle
parle
29,008 corpus weight
- PDL
PDL
29,005 corpus weight
- pedometer
pedometer
29,004 corpus weight
- Pendle
Pendle
29,003 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “parle” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “parle” in English
Rare enough to double-check
parle is uncommon English at frequency #70,993 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for parle in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English parlen (“to speak”), from Middle French parler, from Old French parler, from Late Latin parabolō. The correct English form is parle, spelled P-A-R-L-E.
Definition
- 1Parley; talk.
- 2A nasty encounter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Iul[ia]. Of all the faire reſort of Gentlemen, / That euery day with par’le encounter me, / In thy opinion which is worthieſt loue?
Hor[atio].[…]So frown’d he once, when in an angry parle / He ſmot the ſledded Pollax on the Ice.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English parlen (“to speak”), from Middle French parler, from Old French parler, from Late Latin parabolō.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).