par exemple

/\pa.ʁ‿ɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\/ adv

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

par exemple is anFrenchadv. It means: Locution qui s’utilise pour illustrer un propos, lorsqu’on veut éclaircir, expliquer ou confirmer par un exemple ce qu’on a dit. Pronounced \pa.ʁ‿ɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\.

Key facts for par exemple
PropertyValue
Headwordpar exemple
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\pa.ʁ‿ɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

par exemple is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for par exemple is 11 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁ‿ɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for par exemple in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 exemple, spelled P-A-R- -E-X-E-M-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Locution qui s’utilise pour illustrer un propos, lorsqu’on veut éclaircir, expliquer ou confirmer par un exemple ce qu’on a dit.
  2. 2
    Cependant, par contre.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "par exemple"?
"par exemple" is spelled P-A-R- -E-X-E-M-P-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.ʁ‿ɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\.
What does "par exemple" mean?
As an adv, "par exemple" means: Locution qui s’utilise pour illustrer un propos, lorsqu’on veut éclaircir, expliquer ou confirmer par un exemple ce qu’on a dit.
How do you pronounce "par exemple"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "par exemple" is \pa.ʁ‿ɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "par exemple" come from?
"par exemple" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.