par le ciel

/\paʁ lə sjɛl\/ intj

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

par le ciel is anFrenchintj. It means: Exclamation qui exprime la surprise ou l’émotion. Pronounced \paʁ lə sjɛl\.

Key facts for par le ciel
PropertyValue
Headwordpar le ciel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechIntj
IPA\paʁ lə sjɛl\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

par le ciel 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 le ciel is 11 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ lə sjɛl\. 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: "Exclamation qui exprime la surprise ou l’émotion.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for par le ciel 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 le ciel, spelled P-A-R- -L-E- -C-I-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Exclamation qui exprime la surprise ou l’émotion.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "par le ciel"?
"par le ciel" is spelled P-A-R- -L-E- -C-I-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ lə sjɛl\.
What does "par le ciel" mean?
As an intj, "par le ciel" means: Exclamation qui exprime la surprise ou l’émotion.
How do you pronounce "par le ciel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "par le ciel" is \paʁ lə sjɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "par le ciel" come from?
"par le ciel" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index:

Explore PlainSpell

Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.