parachuter
\pa.ʁa.ʃy.te\
The verdict
“parachuter” is uncommon French (frequency #93,067 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,067
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Larguer quelque-chose ou quelqu’un attaché à un parachute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parachuter · parachuter · French
parachuter · rank #93,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,067
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pantomimes
Nearest frequency peer: pantomimes (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « parachuter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- palétuviers
palétuviers
6,937 corpus weight
- panisse
panisse
6,936 corpus weight
- pantomimes
pantomimes
6,935 corpus weight
- parachuter
parachuter
6,934 corpus weight
- parcoure
parcoure
6,932 corpus weight
- parcourra
parcourra
6,931 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parachuter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parachuter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.ʃy.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parachuter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parachuter is uncommon French at frequency #93,067 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.ʁa.ʃy.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for parachuter, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is parachuter, spelled P-A-R-A-C-H-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Larguer quelque-chose ou quelqu’un attaché à un parachute.
- 2Faire arriver de façon imprévue à un poste.
- 3Envoyer dans une circonscription une personne n’ayant aucune attache avec celle-ci.
- 4Au shōgi ou dans certaines variantes du jeu d’échecs, replacer sur le tablier une pièce précédemment prise à l’adversaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parachuter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après le refus des astronautes russes de se faire parachuter, déguisés en Père Noël, au dessus des Hauts-Praz, Chambère ne s'était pas découragé.
J’ai finalement trouvé ce que je voulais faire : avec un ami, nous créons une association pour aider les étudiants à mieux comprendre le monde du travail dans lequel ils seront parachutés.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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