parage

\pa.ʁaʒ\

/\pa.ʁaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“parage” is uncommon French (frequency #81,421 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,421
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extraction, qualité, lignage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-parage · parage · French

parage · rank #81,421 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,421
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH papouilles

Nearest frequency peer: papouilles (-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 « parage »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for parage
PropertyValue
Headwordparage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.ʁaʒ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#81,421
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « parage » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.paragetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « papouilles » (#81,420), « palindrome » (#81,419), « Parisi » (#81,423). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « parage » est au #81,421. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

parage is uncommon French at frequency #81,421 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for parage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is parage, spelled P-A-R-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Extraction, qualité, lignage.
  2. 2
    Mode de détention à parité d’un fief.
  3. 3
    Action de parer les morceaux de viande.
  4. 4
    Intervention chirurgicale qui consiste à exciser les bords d'une plaie ou d'une lésion, pour favoriser la cicatrisation. Voir débridement
  5. 5
    Section des brides constrictives.
  6. 6
    Dilatation sanglante d'une plaie ou d'un orifice naturel, pour permettre l'évacuation d'un corps étranger ou d'un épanchement.
  7. 7
    Nettoyage d'une plaie, en excisant les tissus nécrosés, pour faciliter la cicatrisation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how parage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce contrebandier […] a encore cinq filles très jolies […] qui nous ont fait les honneurs de leur maison avec une grâce parfaite, mieux vraiment que n’eussent fait beaucoup de personnes de meilleur parage.
  2. Christine [de Suède] est la première de ces aventurières de haut parage qui de nos jours courent de capitale en capitale, font l'amour et l'intrigue dans toutes les langues, et ont pour patrie un wagon de chemin de fer. Les Suédois professent une admiration médiocre pour cette reine vagabonde, et je crois qu'ils n'ont pas tort.

This word in other languages

debridement(English)abolengo(Español)debridement(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parage"?
"parage" is spelled P-A-R-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.ʁaʒ\.
What does "parage" mean?
As a noun, "parage" means: Extraction, qualité, lignage.
How do you pronounce "parage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parage" is \pa.ʁaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parage" come from?
"parage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "parage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Parisi#81,423Piolle#81,439Nikkei#81,387prieto#81,456

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list