parente

\pa.ʁɑ̃t\

/\pa.ʁɑ̃t\/ noun

The verdict

“parente” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,989. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,989
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui a un lien de parenté avec une personne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-parente · parente · French

parente · rank #36,989 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,989
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH parement

Nearest frequency peer: parement (-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 « parente »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « parente » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

parente vs prêté
43% similar
parente vs pente
71% similar
parente vs parte
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for parente
PropertyValue
Headwordparente
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.ʁɑ̃t\
Letters7
Frequency rank#36,989
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « parente »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).parentese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « parement » (#36,988), « parlées » (#36,990), « panse » (#36,987). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « parente » est au #36,989. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around parente (IPA \pa.ʁɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,989 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme qui a un lien de parenté avec une personne.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for parente, with forms such as "aprente", "paernte", and "parenet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prêté", "pente", "parte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is parente, spelled P-A-R-E-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme qui a un lien de parenté avec une personne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how parente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Née et grandie à la campagne, elle n’avait connu du reste du monde que de brefs séjours à Paris, chez une parente âgée.
  2. Volines avait déjà invité dans sa classe une parente d’élève qui était monteuse au cinéma, un ami spécialiste d’art yéménite lors de la grande exposition à l’Institut du monde arabe.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aprente
  • paernte
  • parenet
  • parennte
  • parentte
  • paretne
  • parnete
  • parrente
  • pparente
  • praente

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parente - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aprente2paernte2parenet2parennte1parentte1paretne2parnete2parrente1
Edit distance from "parente"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parente"?
"parente" is spelled P-A-R-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.ʁɑ̃t\.
What does "parente" mean?
As a noun, "parente" means: Femme qui a un lien de parenté avec une personne.
What words are commonly confused with "parente"?
"parente" is commonly confused with "prêté", "pente", "parte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "parente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parente" is \pa.ʁɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parente" come from?
"parente" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "parente", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list