par accident
\pa.ʁ‿ak.si.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“par accident” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De manière accidentelle. Par un concours de circonstances.
Corpus desk
Index FR-par-accident · par accident · French
par accident · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | par accident |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁ‿ak.si.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
par accident is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \pa.ʁ‿ak.si.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De manière accidentelle. Par un concours de circonstances.".
par accident doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is par accident, spelled P-A-R- -A-C-C-I-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1De manière accidentelle. Par un concours de circonstances.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how par accident appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est par accident que cela est arrivé. Cela ne s’est fait que par accident.
Un assistant laissa un brûleur allumé pendant un week-end de 1928. Le chimiste Wallace H. Carothers découvrit, le lundi matin, que le produit s’était figé sous forme de fibre. Il fallu dix ans de plus à Du Pont pour reproduire ce qui n’avait été obtenu que par accident, à savoir la fabrication du nylon.
Synonyms
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.