par nécessité

\paʁ ne.se.si.te\

/\paʁ ne.se.si.te\/ adv

The verdict

“par nécessité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À cause d’un besoin pressant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-par-necessite · par nécessité · French

par nécessité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 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.

Key facts for par nécessité
PropertyValue
Headwordpar nécessité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\paʁ ne.se.si.te\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « par nécessité » en français

par nécessitén'entre pas dans le top 100.000 du français: zone de termes techniques, archaïques ou rares.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

par nécessité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \paʁ ne.se.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "À cause d’un besoin pressant.".

par nécessité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is par nécessité, spelled P-A-R- -N-É-C-E-S-S-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    À cause d’un besoin pressant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how par nécessité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il vend ses livres par nécessité.
  2. Le point crucial de sa démonstration est donc qu’il n’y a pas d’incompatibilité entre le fait d’agir selon son gré et par conséquent librement, et le fait d’agir par nécessité.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "par nécessité"?
"par nécessité" is spelled P-A-R- -N-É-C-E-S-S-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ ne.se.si.te\.
What does "par nécessité" mean?
As an adverb, "par nécessité" means: À cause d’un besoin pressant.
How do you pronounce "par nécessité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "par nécessité" is \paʁ ne.se.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "par nécessité" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list