paraissent
\pa.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“paraissent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,360
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de paraître (ou paraitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-paraissent · paraissent · French
paraissent · rank #9,360 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,360
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paradoxe
Nearest frequency peer: paradoxe (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « paraissent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paient
paient
90,643 corpus weight
- paradoxe
paradoxe
90,642 corpus weight
- paraissent
paraissent
90,641 corpus weight
- patrouille
patrouille
90,640 corpus weight
- permettront
permettront
90,639 corpus weight
- phares
phares
90,638 corpus weight
What this shows « paraissent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paraissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paraissent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around paraissent (IPA \pa.ʁɛs\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,360 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for paraissent, with forms such as "apraissent", "paarissent", and "paraisent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "périssent", "paresse", "paraisse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is paraissent, spelled P-A-R-A-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de paraître (ou paraitre).
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de paraître (ou paraitre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paraissent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette question est de grande portée, car les liens entre les bogomiles des Balkans et les cathares du Languedoc paraissent maintenant solidement établis.
Scruter les signes divins n’est pas le fruit d’une volonté intellectuelle, c’est un réflexe profondément humain devant chaque écart que la nature impose à des cycles qui paraissent immuables.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apraissent
- paarissent
- paraisent
- paraisesnt
- paraissennt
- paraissentt
- paraissetn
- paraissnet
- parasisent
- pariassent
- parraissent
- pparaissent
- praaissent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paraissent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).