parabole
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,308
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
parabole is aFrenchnoun. It means: Allégorie qui abrite une idée morale. Pronounced \pa.ʁa.bɔl\. Often confused with parole and parasol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parabole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.bɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for parabole is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁa.bɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,308 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for parabole, with forms such as "aprabole", "paarbole", and "parabbole". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "parole", "parasol", "payable", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 parabole, spelled P-A-R-A-B-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Allégorie qui abrite une idée morale.
- 2Récit allégorique.
- 3Comparaison.
- 4Ligne courbe qui résulte de la section d’un cône quand il est coupé par un plan parallèle à une de ses génératrices.
- 5Antenne parabolique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprabole,paarbole,parabbole,parabloe,paraboel,parabolle,paraoble,parbaole,parrabole,pparabole,praabole
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Misspelling Variants of "parabole"
Frequency rank: #23,308 in French
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