par erreur
\pa.ʁ‿e.ʁœʁ\
The verdict
“par erreur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Suite à une information ou une croyance erronée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-par-erreur · par erreur · French
par erreur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 erreur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁ‿e.ʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “par erreur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
par erreur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \pa.ʁ‿e.ʁœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for par erreur, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is par erreur, spelled P-A-R- -E-R-R-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Suite à une information ou une croyance erronée.
- 2A la suite d'une méprise dans l'action ; en se trompant.
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