parapets
\pa.ʁa.pɛ\
The verdict
“parapets” is uncommon French (frequency #87,003 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,003
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de parapet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parapets · parapets · French
parapets · rank #87,003 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,003
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parallel
Nearest frequency peer: parallel (-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 « parapets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- panna
panna
13,001 corpus weight
- Paquita
Paquita
13,000 corpus weight
- parallel
parallel
12,999 corpus weight
- parapets
parapets
12,998 corpus weight
- parcage
parcage
12,997 corpus weight
- Parkes
Parkes
12,996 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parapets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parapets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parapets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parapets is uncommon French at frequency #87,003 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁa.pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de parapet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for parapets, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is parapets, spelled P-A-R-A-P-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de parapet.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).