parascience
\pa.ʁa.sjɑ̃s\
The verdict
“parascience” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expression parfois utilisée pour définir certains domaines occultes ou pseudo-scientifiques.
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Index FR-parascience · parascience · French
parascience · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 | parascience |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.sjɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
parascience is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁa.sjɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Expression parfois utilisée pour définir certains domaines occultes ou pseudo-scientifiques.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for parascience in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is parascience, spelled P-A-R-A-S-C-I-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Expression parfois utilisée pour définir certains domaines occultes ou pseudo-scientifiques.
Synonyms
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.