par certains côtés
\paʁ sɛʁ.tɛ̃ ko.te\
The verdict
“par certains côtés” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a preposition - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Par des conditions particulières ou spéciales.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | par certains côtés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \paʁ sɛʁ.tɛ̃ ko.te\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “par certains côtés” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for par certains côtés is 18 letters long, classified as a preposition, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ sɛʁ.tɛ̃ ko.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Par des conditions particulières ou spéciales.".
No misspelling variants are generated for par certains côtés 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 certains côtés, spelled P-A-R- -C-E-R-T-A-I-N-S- -C-Ô-T-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Par des conditions particulières ou spéciales.
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- -C-E-R-T-A-I-N-S- -C-Ô-T-É-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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