parait

/\pa.ʁɛ\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,261

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

parait is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe parer. Pronounced \pa.ʁɛ\. It ranks #4,261 in French word frequency. Often confused with part and pari.

Key facts for parait
PropertyValue
Headwordparait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pa.ʁɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,261
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of parait in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for parait is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,261 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is parait, spelled P-A-R-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe parer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aprait,paarit,paraitt,parati,pariat,parrait,pparait,praait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parait

Misspelling Variants of "parait"

aprait6paarit6paraitt7parati6pariat6parrait7pparait7praait6
Misspelling Variants of "parait"

Frequency rank: #4,261 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parait"?
"parait" is spelled P-A-R-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.ʁɛ\.
What does "parait" mean?
As a verb, "parait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe parer.
What words are commonly confused with "parait"?
"parait" is commonly confused with "part", "pari", "prat". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "parait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parait" is \pa.ʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parait" come from?
"parait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.