paramètre
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,957
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
paramètre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Constante qui fixe la position d’une figure géométrique. Il a différentes acceptions selon les courbes auxquelles on l’applique. Pronounced \pa.ʁa.mɛtʁ\. Often confused with périmètre and paramètres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paramètre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for paramètre is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁa.mɛtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,957 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for paramètre, with forms such as "apramètre", "paarmètre", and "parametre". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "périmètre", "paramètres", "paraître", 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 paramètre, spelled P-A-R-A-M-È-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Constante qui fixe la position d’une figure géométrique. Il a différentes acceptions selon les courbes auxquelles on l’applique.
- 2Dans une fonction ou une équation, élément variable autre que les inconnues, auquel on attribue une valeur quelconque, qui détermine une forme particulière de la fonction ou de l'équation sans en changer la nature.
- 3Variable dont la valeur n'est déterminée par le système qu'au moment de l'exécution (appel) de l'application ou du programme.
- 4Zone située latéralement où arrivent les vaisseaux au niveau de l'utérus.
- 5Élément de calcul, de réglage ou d'appréciation qui permettent d'établir des résultats ou des faits.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apramètre,paarmètre,parametre,parammètre,paramtère,paramèrte,paramèter,paramètrre,paramèttre,paraèmtre,parmaètre,parramètre,pparamètre,praamètre
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Misspelling Variants of "paramètre"
Frequency rank: #15,957 in French
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