parallèle
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parallèle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.lɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Qui n’a pas d’intersection ; qui évolue côte à côte.
- 2En référence aux droites parallèles qui ne se rejoignent jamais.
- 3Qui ne se rencontre pas dans la réalité, imaginaire, introuvable.
- 4Situé à l’infini.
- 5En référence aux droites parallèles qui sont équidistantes, alignées de façon régulière et contiguës.
- 6Linéaire, issu d’une source lumineuse supposée située à l’infini.
- 7Groupé par même polarité, et travaillant en même temps, en parlant de générateurs ou autres.
- 8Qui se déroule dans des conditions analogues, similaire, semblable, homologue.
- 9Concomitant, simultané, qui a lieu en même temps.
- 10Collatéral.
- 11Officieux, non officiel, alternatif, marginal, latéral.
- 12Qui possède des nervures parallèles sans anastomoses entre elles.
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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"
Frequency rank: #3,211 in French
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