parenthèse
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,961
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
parenthèse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Remarque accessoire formant un sens distinct et séparé de celui de la phrase où elle est insérée. Pronounced \pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\. Often confused with parenthèses.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parenthèse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for parenthèse is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,961 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for parenthèse, with forms such as "aprenthèse", "paernthèse", and "parenhtèse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "parenthèses", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is parenthèse, spelled P-A-R-E-N-T-H-È-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Remarque accessoire formant un sens distinct et séparé de celui de la phrase où elle est insérée.
- 2Signes dont on se sert dans l’écriture et dans l’imprimerie pour enfermer les mots d’une parenthèse et qui sont ainsi figurés ( ).
- 3Digression.
- 4Moment marquant le début d'une durée finie.
- 5Ce que l'on fait entre deux activités.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprenthèse,paernthèse,parenhtèse,parennthèse,parenthese,parenthhèse,parenthsèe,parenthèes,parenthèsse,parentthèse,parentèhse,paretnhèse,parnethèse,parrenthèse,pparenthèse,praenthèse
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Misspelling Variants of "parenthèse"
Frequency rank: #16,961 in French
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