parc
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,144
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
parc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grande étendue de terrain, entièrement clos, comprenant des bois, des prairies et parfois des pièces d’eau, et entretenu pour l’agrément. Pronounced \paʁk\. It ranks #1,144 in French word frequency. Often confused with PC and Pr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for parc is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁk\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,144 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for parc, with forms such as "aprc", "pacr", and "parcc". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PC", "Pr", "pas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is parc, spelled P-A-R-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grande étendue de terrain, entièrement clos, comprenant des bois, des prairies et parfois des pièces d’eau, et entretenu pour l’agrément.
- 2Enclos de vaste dimension.
- 3Enclos de vaste dimension.
- 4Enclos de vaste dimension.
- 5Enclos de vaste dimension.
- 6Clôture que l’on fait pour prendre ou pour conserver du poisson ; et, plus particulièrement, d’un Lieu préparé pour y mettre des huîtres, des moules qu’on y laisse se développer.
- 7Enclos pour garder un enfant en bas-âge.
- 8Endroit où l’on entrepose du matériel d’artillerie, d’aérostation ou d’aviation.
- 9Réunion des voitures qui transportent à la suite d’une armée le matériel de l’artillerie, du génie, de l’administration. Aujourd’hui utilisé dans le vocabulaire des organisations (militaires ou non).
- 10Ensemble d'équipements de même nature, souvent d'une organisation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprc,pacr,parcc,parrc,pparc,prac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parc
Misspelling Variants of "parc"
Frequency rank: #1,144 in French
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Nearby French words
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