paraclet
\pa.ʁa.klɛ\
The verdict
“paraclet” is uncommon French (frequency #83,233 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,233
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Consolateur protecteur, intercesseur, nom parfois donné au Saint-Esprit, troisième personne de la Trinité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paraclet · paraclet · French
paraclet · rank #83,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,233
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panpan
Nearest frequency peer: panpan (-2 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 « paraclet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- palmettes
palmettes
16,772 corpus weight
- palpitantes
palpitantes
16,771 corpus weight
- panpan
panpan
16,770 corpus weight
- paraclet
paraclet
16,768 corpus weight
- passeron
passeron
16,765 corpus weight
- paste
paste
16,764 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paraclet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paraclet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.klɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paraclet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paraclet is uncommon French at frequency #83,233 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁa.klɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Consolateur protecteur, intercesseur, nom parfois donné au Saint-Esprit, troisième personne de la Trinité.".
No misspelling variants are generated for paraclet in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is paraclet, spelled P-A-R-A-C-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Consolateur protecteur, intercesseur, nom parfois donné au Saint-Esprit, troisième personne de la Trinité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paraclet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la coction de cette destinée, la mise au monde, je parle du monde, prend la place éminente, celle du ciel, celle du paraclet !
Il y a des vies qui constituent des appels à vivre. Des « paraclets », disait le poète anglais Hopkins. On peut appliquer le mot à Fanon en le dépouillant de son contexte religieux et mystique. Celui qui réveille, et celui qui encourage. Et, celui qui somme l’homme d’accomplir sa tâche d’homme et de s’accomplir lui-même, en accomplissant sa propre pensée.
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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