parafe
French, noun
parafe is spelled P-A-R-A-F-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parafe is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative form of paraphe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of parafer. With an accent, parafé is a different word: “past participle of parafer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de paraphe”.
What does parafe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of paraphe
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of parafer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de paraphe.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of parafe
- parafes plural
- parafée feminine
- parafés masculine plural
- parafées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is parafe in French?
parafe appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).