paramétrage

\pa.ʁa.me.tʁaʒ\

/\pa.ʁa.me.tʁaʒ\/ noun

The verdict

“paramétrage” is uncommon French (frequency #63,226 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,226
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de paramétrer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-parametrage · paramétrage · French

paramétrage · rank #63,226 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,226
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH papou

Nearest frequency peer: papou (-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 « paramétrage »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paramétrage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for paramétrage
PropertyValue
Headwordparamétrage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.ʁa.me.tʁaʒ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#63,226
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « paramétrage » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).paramétragetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « papou » (#63,225), « paranos » (#63,227), « Palissy » (#63,223). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « paramétrage » est au #63,226. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

paramétrage is uncommon French at frequency #63,226 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁa.me.tʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

paramétrage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is paramétrage, spelled P-A-R-A-M-É-T-R-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de paramétrer.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des paramètres.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how paramétrage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J'ai fini le paramétrage de ton logiciel de messagerie, tu peux l'utiliser.
  2. Le paramétrage consiste à rendre effective cette adaptation du progiciel aux caractéristiques et aux besoins de l’entreprise par la détermination des paramètres à considérer et des valeurs qu'ils devront prendre.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paramétrage"?
"paramétrage" is spelled P-A-R-A-M-É-T-R-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.ʁa.me.tʁaʒ\.
What does "paramétrage" mean?
As a noun, "paramétrage" means: Action de paramétrer.
How do you pronounce "paramétrage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paramétrage" is \pa.ʁa.me.tʁaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "paramétrage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list