parer
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,808
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
parer is aFrenchverb. It means: Préparer, apprêter certaines choses de manière à leur donner meilleure apparence, à les rendre plus belles, plus commodes, plus propres au service. Pronounced \pa.ʁe\. Often confused with pré and part.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for parer is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,808 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for parer, with forms such as "aprer", "paerr", and "parerr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pré", "part", "près", and more, 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 parer, spelled P-A-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Préparer, apprêter certaines choses de manière à leur donner meilleure apparence, à les rendre plus belles, plus commodes, plus propres au service.
- 2Préparer une manœuvre.
- 3Préparer un aliment, le peler, en ôter les parties non comestibles.
- 4Orner ; embellir.
- 5Ôter de la corne du pied d’un cheval pour le ferrer.
- 6Faire fermenter (du cidre, du poiré) pour lui ôter le goût douceâtre qu’il a naturellement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprer,paerr,parerr,parre,parrer,pparer,praer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parer
Misspelling Variants of "parer"
Frequency rank: #20,808 in French
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Nearby French words
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