par
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#28
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
par is aFrenchprep. It means: Sert à marquer le mouvement et le passage. Pronounced \paʁ\. It ranks #28 in French word frequency. Often confused with pu and PS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | par |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | \paʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for par is 3 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #28 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for par in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", 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 par, spelled P-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sert à marquer le mouvement et le passage.
- 2S’emploie aussi au sens de en, dans, avec l’idée de mouvement dans l’espace indiqué.
- 3À travers.
- 4À la hauteur de.
- 5Sert à indiquer la position d’un bâtiment, d’un objet, par rapport à un autre bâtiment ou à un autre objet.
- 6Sert à désigner la partie qu’on saisit.
- 7Sert à désigner l’agent. — Note d’usage : Il régit en cet emploi le complément des verbes passifs :
- 8Sert à désigner la cause, le motif.
- 9Sert à désigner le moyen :
- 10Sert à désigner l’instrument, la manière.
- 11Indique l’ordre et la distribution.
- 12Sert à remplacer le gérondif par l'infinitif, dans des phrases où le verbe conjugué est commencer, continuer ou finir.
- 13S'emploie pour affirmer, jurer, conjurer.
- 14Durant.
- 15Sert de particule interjective entrant dans les exclamations faisant intervenir le nom d’une divinité.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #28 in French
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