paramilitaire
\pa.ʁa.mi.li.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“paramilitaire” is uncommon French (frequency #50,404 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,404
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est entrainé à l’activité militaire mais ne fait pas partie de l’armée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paramilitaire · paramilitaire · French
paramilitaire · rank #50,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,404
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paquette
Nearest frequency peer: paquette (-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 « paramilitaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- organisatio…
organisationnelles
49,600 corpus weight
- ouvreur
ouvreur
49,599 corpus weight
- paquette
paquette
49,598 corpus weight
- paramilitai…
paramilitaire
49,597 corpus weight
- Pauwels
Pauwels
49,595 corpus weight
- pavaner
pavaner
49,594 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paramilitaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paramilitaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.mi.li.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #50,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paramilitaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paramilitaire is uncommon French at frequency #50,404 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.ʁa.mi.li.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est entrainé à l’activité militaire mais ne fait pas partie de l’armée.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for paramilitaire, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is paramilitaire, spelled P-A-R-A-M-I-L-I-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est entrainé à l’activité militaire mais ne fait pas partie de l’armée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paramilitaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 19 octobre, le patron du groupe paramilitaire Wagner, Evguéni Prigojine, a annoncé la construction de ce dispositif, hérissé de « dents de dragon » antichars, dans la région de Lougansk.
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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