parece
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#166
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
parece is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de parecer o de parecerse. Pronounced [paˈɾese]. It ranks #166 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with parte and pared.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parece |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [paˈɾese] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for parece is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈɾese]. Corpus data places it at rank #166 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for parece, with forms such as "aprece", "paerce", and "parcee". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "parte", "pared", "pares", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Spanish form is parece, spelled P-A-R-E-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de parecer o de parecerse.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de parecer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprece,paerce,parcee,parecce,pareec,parese,parrece,pparece,praece
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parece
Misspelling Variants of "parece"
Frequency rank: #166 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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