parfum
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,697
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
parfum is aFrenchnoun. It means: Odeur aromatique, agréable, plus ou moins forte, plus ou moins subtile et suave, qui s’exhale d’une substance quelconque et particulièrement des fleurs. Pronounced \paʁ.fœ̃\. It ranks #4,697 in French word frequency. Often confused with paru and parue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parfum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.fœ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for parfum is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.fœ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,697 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for parfum, with forms such as "aprfum", "pafrum", and "parffum". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "paru", "parue", "parus", 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 parfum, spelled P-A-R-F-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Odeur aromatique, agréable, plus ou moins forte, plus ou moins subtile et suave, qui s’exhale d’une substance quelconque et particulièrement des fleurs.
- 2Produit industriel ou artisanal, extrait de certaines fleurs ou obtenus par des procédés chimiques, et dont il s’exhale une odeur agréable.
- 3Lors des épisodes de peste à la fin du XVIIᵉ siècle, fumigation utilisée pour préserver ou désinfecter les maisons de la maladie.
- 4Effet subtil et durable d’une réalité agréable.
- 5Rappel ; ressemblance.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprfum,pafrum,parffum,parfmu,parfumm,parrfum,parufm,pparfum,prafum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parfum
Misspelling Variants of "parfum"
Frequency rank: #4,697 in French
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