parallaxe
\pa.ʁa.laks\
The verdict
“parallaxe” is uncommon French (frequency #61,013 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,013
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Angle sous lequel on voit perpendiculairement un objet depuis un point donné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parallaxe · parallaxe · French
parallaxe · rank #61,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,013
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panais
Nearest frequency peer: panais (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « parallaxe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- palpation
palpation
38,991 corpus weight
- paléontolog…
paléontologue
38,990 corpus weight
- panais
panais
38,989 corpus weight
- parallaxe
parallaxe
38,988 corpus weight
- partirez
partirez
38,987 corpus weight
- parviendrez
parviendrez
38,986 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parallaxe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parallaxe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.laks\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parallaxe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parallaxe is uncommon French at frequency #61,013 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁa.laks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for parallaxe in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is parallaxe, spelled P-A-R-A-L-L-A-X-E.
Definition
- 1Angle sous lequel on voit perpendiculairement un objet depuis un point donné.
- 2Angle formé par le rayon visuel mené d'un point de la surface de la Terre à un astre avec le rayon mené du centre de la Terre à cet astre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parallaxe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parallaxe annuelle.
Sans égaler Luther et Calvin dans leurs dénonciations d’un système qui tournait en moquerie l’histoire de Josué, l’évêque le jugeait moins recevable pour les bons chrétiens que celui de Ptolémée. Il y fit d’ailleurs une objection mathématique fort juste basée sur les parallaxes. Zénon convint que bien des choses restaient à prouver.
This word in other languages
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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