parait
\pa.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“parait” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,261
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe parer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parait · parait · French
parait · rank #4,261 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,261
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH opportunité
Nearest frequency peer: opportunité (-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 « parait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- occident
occident
95,743 corpus weight
- onu
onu
95,742 corpus weight
- opportunité
opportunité
95,741 corpus weight
- parait
parait
95,740 corpus weight
- partant
partant
95,739 corpus weight
- parvenir
parvenir
95,738 corpus weight
What this shows « parait » 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 | parait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « parait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around parait (IPA \pa.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,261 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe parer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for parait, with forms such as "aprait", "paarit", and "paraitt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "part", "pari", "prat", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is parait, spelled P-A-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe parer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout, jusqu’à ses couleurs adoptées depuis peu, le bleu qui la parait si bien et qui faisait valoir avec tant d’éclat sa blancheur sans trouble, tout cela revivait avec une lucidité surprenante.
Il cherchait à voir ce qui se passait, lorsqu’un cavalier, ayant à la main une longue épée dont il parait les coups que lui portait un garde, s’approcha de la portière en criant : Venez, venez, monsieur le maréchal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprait
- paarit
- paraitt
- parati
- pariat
- parrait
- pparait
- praait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "parait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).