paraphilie
\pa.ʁa.fi.li\
The verdict
“paraphilie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comportement sexuel considéré comme déviant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paraphilie · paraphilie · French
paraphilie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paraphilie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.fi.li\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
paraphilie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁa.fi.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for paraphilie, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 paraphilie, spelled P-A-R-A-P-H-I-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Comportement sexuel considéré comme déviant.
- 2Toute attraction ou pratique sexuelle qui diffère des actes sexuels considérés comme faisant partie d’une sexualité normale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paraphilie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant le procès des viols de Mazan, le principal accusé, Dominique Pelicot, a été présenté par les experts psychiatres comme un homme atteint de plusieurs perversions sexuelles – on préfère aujourd’hui parler de « paraphilie ».
Une paraphilie, « c’est en quelque sorte aimer quelque chose ou une activité en marge de ce qu’aime la grande majorité des personnes », écrit Serge Stoléru, psychiatre et chercheur à l’Inserm-Hôpital Paul-Brousse, […]
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.