parce que
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
parce que is aFrenchconj. It means: Sert à marquer la raison de ce qu’on a dit, le motif de ce qu’on a fait, la cause d’un événement. Pronounced \paʁs kə\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parce que |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conj |
| IPA | \paʁs kə\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for parce que is 9 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁs kə\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for parce que in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 parce que, spelled P-A-R-C-E- -Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sert à marquer la raison de ce qu’on a dit, le motif de ce qu’on a fait, la cause d’un événement.
- 2Pourquoi ? — Note d’usage : C’est une invitation à faire une phrase débutant par parce que.
- 3Marque le refus ou l’impossibilité de réponse à un pourquoi.
- 4Introduit une déduction dans une conversation.
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