pardessus
\paʁ.də.sy\
The verdict
“pardessus” is uncommon French (frequency #51,024 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,024
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vêtement qu’on met sur les autres pour se garantir du froid ou de l’humidité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pardessus · pardessus · French
pardessus · rank #51,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,024
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parcourues
Nearest frequency peer: parcourues (-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 « pardessus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parabolique
parabolique
48,980 corpus weight
- parachutage
parachutage
48,979 corpus weight
- parcourues
parcourues
48,978 corpus weight
- pardessus
pardessus
48,977 corpus weight
- parfumés
parfumés
48,976 corpus weight
- parsèment
parsèment
48,975 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pardessus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pardessus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.də.sy\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pardessus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pardessus is uncommon French at frequency #51,024 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \paʁ.də.sy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vêtement qu’on met sur les autres pour se garantir du froid ou de l’humidité.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pardessus in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pardessus, spelled P-A-R-D-E-S-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Vêtement qu’on met sur les autres pour se garantir du froid ou de l’humidité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pardessus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le parfait gentleman qu’est mon vieil ami Jacques arborait ce soir-là une suave écharpe de soie, d’impeccables chaussures vernies, un pardessus du bon faiseur et un chapeau d’au moins vingt louis.
Ils descendirent les marches de la station et, bientôt, se trouvèrent sous une voûte où ils déboutonnèrent leurs pardessus.
This word in other languages
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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