parasitaire
\pa.ʁa.zi.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“parasitaire” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,944. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,944
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux parasites.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parasitaire · parasitaire · French
parasitaire · rank #46,944 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #46,944
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parachutisme
Nearest frequency peer: parachutisme (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « parasitaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pantoufle
pantoufle
53,060 corpus weight
- Paquin
Paquin
53,059 corpus weight
- parachutisme
parachutisme
53,058 corpus weight
- parasitaire
parasitaire
53,057 corpus weight
- paritaires
paritaires
53,056 corpus weight
- paroissiaux
paroissiaux
53,055 corpus weight
What this shows « parasitaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parasitaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.zi.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #46,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « parasitaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around parasitaire (IPA \pa.ʁa.zi.tɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,944 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif aux parasites.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for parasitaire, with forms such as "aprasitaire", "paarsitaire", and "paraistaire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "paritaire", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is parasitaire, spelled P-A-R-A-S-I-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux parasites.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parasitaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est le signe d’une réaction de l’organisme : le tissu lymphoïde fabrique des phagocytes en abondance pour pouvoir lutter contre l’invasion parasitaire, qui se produit au niveau de la muqueuse intestinale.
L’efficacité parasitaire des adultes peut se trouver limitée par la rupture de la coïncidence spatio-temporelle entre le stade réceptif des hôtes (œufs en cours d’embryogenèse) et le stade agressif du parasitoïde (Nenon, 1974).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprasitaire
- paarsitaire
- paraistaire
- parasiatire
- parasitaier
- parasitairre
- parasitarie
- parasitiare
- parasittaire
- parassitaire
- parastiaire
- parrasitaire
- parsaitaire
- pparasitaire
- praasitaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parasitaire - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).