par la présente
\paʁ la pʁe.zɑ̃t\
The verdict
“par la présente” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Par (au moyen de, à travers) la présente lettre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | par la présente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \paʁ la pʁe.zɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “par la présente” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for par la présente is 15 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ la pʁe.zɑ̃t\. 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 (au moyen de, à travers) la présente lettre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for par la présente 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 la présente, spelled P-A-R- -L-A- -P-R-É-S-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Par (au moyen de, à travers) la présente lettre.
This word in other languages
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Using “par la présente”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-R- -L-A- -P-R-É-S-E-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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