parasols
\pa.ʁa.sɔl\
The verdict
“parasols” is uncommon French (frequency #52,889 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,889
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de parasol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parasols · parasols · French
parasols · rank #52,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,889
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panoramiques
Nearest frequency peer: panoramiques (-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 « parasols »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ozon
Ozon
47,116 corpus weight
- pagination
pagination
47,115 corpus weight
- panoramiques
panoramiques
47,113 corpus weight
- parasols
parasols
47,112 corpus weight
- partageais
partageais
47,111 corpus weight
- partiale
partiale
47,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parasols » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parasols |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.sɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parasols » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parasols is uncommon French at frequency #52,889 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁa.sɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de parasol.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for parasols, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is parasols, spelled P-A-R-A-S-O-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de parasol.
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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