par rapport à

/\paʁ ʁa.pɔ.ʁ‿a\/ prep

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

par rapport à is aFrenchprep. It means: Pour ce qui est de, ce qui regarde. Pronounced \paʁ ʁa.pɔ.ʁ‿a\.

Key facts for par rapport à
PropertyValue
Headwordpar rapport à
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\paʁ ʁa.pɔ.ʁ‿a\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

par rapport à 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 rapport à is 13 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ ʁa.pɔ.ʁ‿a\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for par rapport à 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 rapport à, spelled P-A-R- -R-A-P-P-O-R-T- -À, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pour ce qui est de, ce qui regarde.
  2. 2
    Par comparaison à ; en proportion de.
  3. 3
    À cause de.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "par rapport à"?
"par rapport à" is spelled P-A-R- -R-A-P-P-O-R-T- -À. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ ʁa.pɔ.ʁ‿a\.
What does "par rapport à" mean?
As a prep, "par rapport à" means: Pour ce qui est de, ce qui regarde.
How do you pronounce "par rapport à"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "par rapport à" is \paʁ ʁa.pɔ.ʁ‿a\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "par rapport à" come from?
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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.