pari
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,483
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pari is aFrenchnoun. It 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. Pronounced \pa.ʁi\. It ranks #5,483 in French word frequency. Often confused with Pr and pi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pari |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pari is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,483 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for pari, with forms such as "apri", "parri", and "ppari". 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, "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 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 pari, spelled P-A-R-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Promesse 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.
- 2Affaire incertaine, sur laquelle il y a des opinions contraires et qui doit bientôt se décider.
- 3Somme, indépendante de l’enjeu ordinaire, que des personnes parient entre elles et dont le sort est décidé par celui de la partie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apri,parri,ppari,prai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pari
Misspelling Variants of "pari"
Frequency rank: #5,483 in French
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Nearby French words
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