paramétrer
\pa.ʁa.me.tʁe\
The verdict
“paramétrer” is uncommon French (frequency #66,974 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,974
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fixer des paramètres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parametrer · paramétrer · French
paramétrer · rank #66,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,974
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paradiso
Nearest frequency peer: paradiso (-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 « paramétrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- papel
papel
33,030 corpus weight
- paradiso
paradiso
33,028 corpus weight
- paramétrer
paramétrer
33,027 corpus weight
- parant
parant
33,026 corpus weight
- parasiter
parasiter
33,025 corpus weight
- parricide
parricide
33,024 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paramétrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paramétrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.me.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paramétrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paramétrer is uncommon French at frequency #66,974 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.ʁa.me.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fixer des paramètres.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for paramétrer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is paramétrer, spelled P-A-R-A-M-É-T-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fixer des paramètres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paramétrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'allumai mon ventilateur. Je paramétrai mon téléphone pour qu'il bipât dans deux heures et fort. Je dépliai mon futon et me couchai.
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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