paraphe

\pa.ʁaf\

/\pa.ʁaf\/ noun

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The verdict

“paraphe” is uncommon French (frequency #70,924 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,924
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marque faite d’un ou plusieurs traits de plume, qu’on appose ordinairement après sa signature, et qui, en certains cas, se met pour la signature même.

Corpus desk

Index FR-paraphe · paraphe · French

paraphe · rank #70,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,924
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH paralytique

Nearest frequency peer: paralytique (-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 « paraphe »

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 « paraphe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for paraphe
PropertyValue
Headwordparaphe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.ʁaf\
Letters7
Frequency rank#70,924
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « paraphe » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.paraphetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « paralytique » (#70,923), « parient » (#70,925), « paralysées » (#70,922). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « paraphe » est au #70,924. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

paraphe is uncommon French at frequency #70,924 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for paraphe, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is paraphe, spelled P-A-R-A-P-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Marque faite d’un ou plusieurs traits de plume, qu’on appose ordinairement après sa signature, et qui, en certains cas, se met pour la signature même.
  2. 2
    Marque laissée comme une signature.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Sous la signature de la reine, il y avait… il y avait, à l’encre noire, deux mots soulignés d’un paraphe… deux mots : Arsène Lupin.
  2. Quant à la signature, je me demandai vainement de quelle manière on peut se prendre pour, de sa main, faire un si gigantesque paraphe.

This word in other languages

initial(English)rúbrica(Español)Handzeichen(Deutsch)

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 "paraphe"?
"paraphe" is spelled P-A-R-A-P-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.ʁaf\.
What does "paraphe" mean?
As a noun, "paraphe" means: Marque faite d’un ou plusieurs traits de plume, qu’on appose ordinairement après sa signature, et qui, en certains cas, se met pour la signature même.
How do you pronounce "paraphe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paraphe" is \pa.ʁaf\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "paraphe" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

parient#70,925pitcher#70,944opérons#70,901ponceau#70,954

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list