parémie
\pa.ʁe.mi\
The verdict
“parémie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Énoncé autonome, stable, bref et généralement didactique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paremie · parémie · French
parémie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parémie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁe.mi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parémie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parémie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁe.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Énoncé autonome, stable, bref et généralement didactique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for parémie in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is parémie, spelled P-A-R-É-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Énoncé autonome, stable, bref et généralement didactique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parémie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas un mot qu’il ne prononçât, pas un geste qu’il n’accomplît, sans qu’il fût dicté, ce mot, décidé, ce geste, par quelque parémie¹. 1. Les personnes ignoreuses du sens du mot parémie, n’ont qu’à se procurer un bon dictionnaire et chercher à la lettre P.
Le proverbe est une parémie qui se caractérise par une thématique générique, un sens idiomatique, une structure généralement binaire, des éléments mnémotechniques, une portée universelle, une morphosyntaxe parfois archaïque : Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse / Âne d'Arcadie, chargé d'or, mange chardon et orties.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.