parcourir
\paʁ.ku.ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“parcourir” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,876. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,876
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traverser un espace en divers sens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parcourir · parcourir · French
parcourir · rank #7,876 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,876
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH originaux
Nearest frequency peer: originaux (-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 « parcourir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nouveautés
nouveautés
92,128 corpus weight
- originalité
originalité
92,127 corpus weight
- originaux
originaux
92,126 corpus weight
- parcourir
parcourir
92,125 corpus weight
- pelouse
pelouse
92,123 corpus weight
- placard
placard
92,122 corpus weight
What this shows « parcourir » 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 | parcourir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.ku.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « parcourir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around parcourir (IPA \paʁ.ku.ʁiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,876 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for parcourir, with forms such as "aprcourir", "pacrourir", and "parccourir". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "parcours", "parcouru", "parcourt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is parcourir, spelled P-A-R-C-O-U-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Traverser un espace en divers sens.
- 2Traverser un espace jusqu’à un but déterminé.
- 3Passer sur ; envahir.
- 4Passer, examiner rapidement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parcourir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La route parcourt une campagne fertile et variée par des jardins, par des plantations de noyers, et par des coteaux plantés de vignes: à gauche, ou suit presque constamment le cours de l'Yonne.
Il vous disait comment le noble seigneur régentait le pays quand […] les pataches et les diligences parcouraient la grand’route.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprcourir
- pacrourir
- parccourir
- parcoruir
- parcouirr
- parcourirr
- parcourri
- parcourrir
- parcuorir
- parocurir
- parrcourir
- pparcourir
- pracourir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parcourir - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "parcourir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).