paries
\pa.ʁi\
The verdict
“paries” is uncommon French (frequency #74,268 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,268
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de parier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paries · paries · French
paries · rank #74,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,268
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pardonnerait
Nearest frequency peer: pardonnerait (-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 « paries »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parachèveme…
parachèvement
25,736 corpus weight
- pardonnerait
pardonnerait
25,734 corpus weight
- paries
paries
25,733 corpus weight
- partouzes
partouzes
25,732 corpus weight
- pauvrement
pauvrement
25,731 corpus weight
- pencherais
pencherais
25,730 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paries » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paries » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paries is uncommon French at frequency #74,268 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for paries, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is paries, spelled P-A-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de parier.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de parier.
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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