par amour
\pa.ʁ‿a.muʁ\
The verdict
“par amour” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit d’actes, d’actions, de paroles motivés par l’amour, mus par un sentiment amoureux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | par amour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁ‿a.muʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “par amour” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for par amour is 9 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁ‿a.muʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for par amour in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 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 amour, spelled P-A-R- -A-M-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’actes, d’actions, de paroles motivés par l’amour, mus par un sentiment amoureux.
- 2(Suivi de pour ou de) Pour l’amour, le désir d’une personne ou d’un objectif.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-R- -A-M-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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