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paragraphe

French, noun/pa.ʁa.ɡʁaf/

paragraphe is spelled P-A-R-A-G-R-A-P-H-E (10 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Paragraphe is a French masculine noun meaning “paragraph” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Section d’un développement, d’un chapitre, etc”.

What does paragraphe mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineparagraph

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Section d’un développement, d’un chapitre, etc. 2. Passage d'un texte en prose compris entre deux alinéas. 3. Signe figuré de cette manière §, dont on se sert comme abréviation pour désigner une telle section d’un texte.

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 paragraphe

  • paragraphes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce paragraphe?

  • /pa.ʁa.ɡʁaf/
  • \pa.ʁa.ɡʁaf\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to paragraphe

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is paragraphe in French?

paragraphe appears 11 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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