parfait
\paʁ.fɛ\
The verdict
“parfait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,168. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,168
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui réunit toutes les qualités, sans nul mélange de défauts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parfait · parfait · French
parfait · rank #1,168 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,168
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH limite
Nearest frequency peer: limite (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “parfait”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ligue
ligue
98,835 corpus weight
- limite
limite
98,834 corpus weight
- parfait
parfait
98,833 corpus weight
- port
port
98,832 corpus weight
- professeur
professeur
98,831 corpus weight
- seuls
seuls
98,830 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “parfait” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parfait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \paʁ.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “parfait” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around parfait (IPA \paʁ.fɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,168 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for parfait, with forms such as "aprfait", "pafrait", and "parafit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "payait", "priait", "parfois", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is parfait, spelled P-A-R-F-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Qui réunit toutes les qualités, sans nul mélange de défauts.
- 2Qui n’a que des qualités ; qui est accompli dans son genre ; qui est au plus haut de l’échelle des valeurs.
- 3Qui est complet, total.
- 4Qui répond exactement, strictement à un concept.
- 5Se dit d’une partie fermée sans points isolés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parfait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le trompement, ou dérobement, est l'une des plus grosses difficultés de l'escrime ; c'est presque le critérium du parfait escrimeur.
La télévision retransmettait en boucle la performance parfaite de Nadia Comaneci aux barres asymétriques. … La perfection, répétait le commentateur éberlué, qui paraissait à bout de souffle. J'avais presque envie de lui dire : Calmez-vous, mon vieux! Des tas de choses sont parfaites : les aurores boréales, les fjords de la baie d'Ungava, l'obscurité polai…
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprfait
- pafrait
- parafit
- parfaitt
- parfati
- parffait
- parfiat
- parrfait
- pparfait
- prafait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parfait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "parfait", 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).
What to do next
You've looked up "parfait". Here's where to go from here.
- "parfait" maps to 18 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "payait". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #1,168 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.