par des fois
The verdict
“par des fois” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Parfois ; quelquefois ; de temps en temps ; à l'occasion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | par des fois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “par des fois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for par des fois is 12 letters long, classified as an adverb. 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: "Parfois ; quelquefois ; de temps en temps ; à l'occasion.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for par des fois, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is par des fois, spelled P-A-R- -D-E-S- -F-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Parfois ; quelquefois ; de temps en temps ; à l'occasion.
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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Using “par des fois”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-R- -D-E-S- -F-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.