pari

\pa.ʁi\

/\pa.ʁi\/ noun

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The verdict

“pari” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,483) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#5,483
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Promesse réciproque, par laquelle deux ou plusieurs personnes, qui soutiennent des choses contraires, s’engagent à payer une certaine somme à celui ou celle qui se trouvera avoir raison.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pari · pari · French

pari · rank #5,483 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,483
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH Ottawa

Nearest frequency peer: Ottawa (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « pari »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « pari » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pari vs Pr
25% similar
pari vs pi
50% similar
pari vs pas
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pari
PropertyValue
Headwordpari
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.ʁi\
Letters4
Frequency rank#5,483
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pari »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).parise place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Ottawa » (#5,482), « plomb » (#5,484), « ordonné » (#5,481). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pari » est au #5,483. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for pari is neighbouring look-alikes ("Pr", "pi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pa.ʁi\. Frequency #5,483 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pari, with forms such as "apri", "parri", and "ppari". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Pr", "pi", "pas", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pari, spelled P-A-R-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Promesse réciproque, par laquelle deux ou plusieurs personnes, qui soutiennent des choses contraires, s’engagent à payer une certaine somme à celui ou celle qui se trouvera avoir raison.
  2. 2
    Affaire incertaine, sur laquelle il y a des opinions contraires et qui doit bientôt se décider.
  3. 3
    Somme, indépendante de l’enjeu ordinaire, que des personnes parient entre elles et dont le sort est décidé par celui de la partie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pari appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans l’angle de la salle, une rumeur de voix s’élevait d’un groupe qui entourait deux hommes posant entre eux les conditions d’un pari à la suite de l’impossibilité chez l’un de croire à un fait avancé par l’autre, à moins de le voir de ses propres yeux.
  2. Chacun peut s'adonner aux joies des paris. Il faut alors entendre les hurlements des parieurs, et les cris des spectateurs. Seul un habitué des gallodromes est capable de comprendre ce qui est en train de se passer.

This word in other languages

bet(English)apuesta(Español)Wette(Deutsch)aposta(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apri
  • parri
  • ppari
  • prai

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pari - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

apri2parri1ppari1prai2
Edit distance from "pari"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pari"?
"pari" is spelled P-A-R-I. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.ʁi\.
What does "pari" mean?
As a noun, "pari" means: Promesse réciproque, par laquelle deux ou plusieurs personnes, qui soutiennent des choses contraires, s’engagent à payer une certaine somme à celui ou celle qui se trouvera avoir raison.
What words are commonly confused with "pari"?
"pari" is commonly confused with "Pr", "pi", "pas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pari"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pari" is \pa.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pari" come from?
"pari" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pari", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

matt#5,477look#5,474hong#5,462high#5,461

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list