parallèle

/\pa.ʁa.lɛl\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,211

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

parallèle is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’a pas d’intersection ; qui évolue côte à côte. Pronounced \pa.ʁa.lɛl\. It ranks #3,211 in French word frequency. Often confused with parallèles.

Key facts for parallèle
PropertyValue
Headwordparallèle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\pa.ʁa.lɛl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,211
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for parallèle is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁa.lɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,211 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for parallèle, with forms such as "aprallèle", "paarllèle", and "parallele". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "parallèles", 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 parallèle, spelled P-A-R-A-L-L-È-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui n’a pas d’intersection ; qui évolue côte à côte.
  2. 2
    En référence aux droites parallèles qui ne se rejoignent jamais.
  3. 3
    Qui ne se rencontre pas dans la réalité, imaginaire, introuvable.
  4. 4
    Situé à l’infini.
  5. 5
    En référence aux droites parallèles qui sont équidistantes, alignées de façon régulière et contiguës.
  6. 6
    Linéaire, issu d’une source lumineuse supposée située à l’infini.
  7. 7
    Groupé par même polarité, et travaillant en même temps, en parlant de générateurs ou autres.
  8. 8
    Qui se déroule dans des conditions analogues, similaire, semblable, homologue.
  9. 9
    Concomitant, simultané, qui a lieu en même temps.
  10. 10
    Collatéral.
  11. 11
    Officieux, non officiel, alternatif, marginal, latéral.
  12. 12
    Qui possède des nervures parallèles sans anastomoses entre elles.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aprallèle,paarllèle,parallele,paralllèe,parallèel,parallèlle,paralèle,paralèlle,parlalèle,parrallèle,pparallèle,praallèle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parallèle

Misspelling Variants of "parallèle"

aprallèle9paarllèle9parallele9paralllèe9parallèel9parallèlle10paralèle8paralèlle9
Misspelling Variants of "parallèle"

Frequency rank: #3,211 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parallèle"?
"parallèle" is spelled P-A-R-A-L-L-È-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.ʁa.lɛl\.
What does "parallèle" mean?
As an adj, "parallèle" means: Qui n’a pas d’intersection ; qui évolue côte à côte.
What words are commonly confused with "parallèle"?
"parallèle" is commonly confused with "parallèles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "parallèle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parallèle" is \pa.ʁa.lɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parallèle" come from?
"parallèle" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.