parfais
\paʁ.fɛ\
The verdict
“parfais” is uncommon French (frequency #84,144 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,144
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de parfaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parfais · parfais · French
parfais · rank #84,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,144
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pardieu
Nearest frequency peer: pardieu (-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 « parfais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- papillotes
papillotes
15,860 corpus weight
- parcourons
parcourons
15,859 corpus weight
- pardieu
pardieu
15,858 corpus weight
- parfais
parfais
15,857 corpus weight
- passade
passade
15,855 corpus weight
- pavoiser
pavoiser
15,854 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parfais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parfais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parfais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parfais is uncommon French at frequency #84,144 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \paʁ.fɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for parfais, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is parfais, spelled P-A-R-F-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de parfaire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de parfaire.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de parfaire.
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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