paragoge
\pa.ʁa.ɡɔʒ\
The verdict
“paragoge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ajout d’une ou plusieurs lettres ou syllabes, et donc, souvent, de phonèmes, à la fin d’un mot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paragoge · paragoge · French
paragoge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paragoge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.ɡɔʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paragoge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paragoge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁa.ɡɔʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ajout d’une ou plusieurs lettres ou syllabes, et donc, souvent, de phonèmes, à la fin d’un mot.".
Zero misspellings are on record for paragoge in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is paragoge, spelled P-A-R-A-G-O-G-E.
Definition
- 1Ajout d’une ou plusieurs lettres ou syllabes, et donc, souvent, de phonèmes, à la fin d’un mot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paragoge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Avecque » pour « avec » en français et « egomet » pour « ego » en latin sont des paragoges.
Très en faveur dans la langue italienne des origines jusqu’au XIVᵉ siècle, l’épithèse (appelée aussi paragoge) consiste en l’ajout occasionnel de phonèmes non étymologiques à la fin d’un mot.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.