pardieu
\paʁ.djø\
The verdict
“pardieu” is uncommon French (frequency #84,143 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,143
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Juron familier employé pour renforcer une affirmation ou une négation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pardieu · pardieu · French
pardieu · rank #84,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,143
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parcourons
Nearest frequency peer: parcourons (-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 « pardieu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- papesse
papesse
15,861 corpus weight
- papillotes
papillotes
15,860 corpus weight
- parcourons
parcourons
15,859 corpus weight
- pardieu
pardieu
15,858 corpus weight
- parfais
parfais
15,857 corpus weight
- passade
passade
15,855 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pardieu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pardieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \paʁ.djø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pardieu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pardieu is uncommon French at frequency #84,143 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \paʁ.djø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Juron familier employé pour renforcer une affirmation ou une négation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pardieu, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pardieu, spelled P-A-R-D-I-E-U.
Definition
- 1Juron familier employé pour renforcer une affirmation ou une négation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pardieu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tiens, ce que je fais, je fais que la tête me tourne, pardieu !
— Ce qu’il y a de bien singulier, c’est que votre maîtresse ne veut pas le voir. — Je le crois pardieu bien, dit Anne-Marie, après un tel cadeau !
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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