pair
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,212
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pair is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne de même condition et de même rang dans l’état. Pronounced \pɛʁ\. It ranks #7,212 in French word frequency. Often confused with Pr and pi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pair |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pair is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,212 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for pair, with forms such as "apir", "pairr", and "piar". 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, "Pr", "pi", "pas", 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 French form is pair, spelled P-A-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne de même condition et de même rang dans l’état.
- 2Titre de dignité porté au Moyen Âge par les grands vassaux du roi.
- 3Seigneur qui possédait des terres érigées en pairies et qui avaient droit de séance au parlement de Paris.
- 4Membre de la Chambre des pairs en France de 1815 à 1848.
- 5Membre de la Chambre des Lords en Angleterre.
- 6Mâle ou femelle de certains oiseaux, et particulièrement de la tourterelle, en parlant de l’un par rapport à l’autre.
- 7Parité de change qui résulte de la comparaison du prix d’une espèce dans un pays avec le prix de la même espèce dans un autre pays.
- 8Personne faisant le même métier, occupant la même profession, une fonction similaire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apir,pairr,piar,ppair
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "pair"
Frequency rank: #7,212 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: