parentes
\pa.ʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“parentes” is uncommon French (frequency #77,772 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,772
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de parent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parentes · parentes · French
parentes · rank #77,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,772
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pardonneront
Nearest frequency peer: pardonneront (-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 « parentes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pantone
Pantone
22,232 corpus weight
- paraboliques
paraboliques
22,231 corpus weight
- pardonneront
pardonneront
22,230 corpus weight
- parentes
parentes
22,229 corpus weight
- Parma
Parma
22,228 corpus weight
- pectorales
pectorales
22,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parentes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parentes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.ʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parentes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parentes is uncommon French at frequency #77,772 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.ʁɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de parent.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for parentes in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is parentes, spelled P-A-R-E-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de parent.
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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