parkour
\paʁ.kuʁ\
The verdict
“parkour” is uncommon French (frequency #61,767 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,767
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discipline sportive combinant la course, le saut d’obstacles, l’escalade, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parkour · parkour · French
parkour · rank #61,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,767
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pardons
Nearest frequency peer: pardons (-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 « parkour »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paléontolog…
paléontologues
38,238 corpus weight
- pardons
pardons
38,235 corpus weight
- parkour
parkour
38,234 corpus weight
- parurent
parurent
38,232 corpus weight
- passi
passi
38,231 corpus weight
- patientez
patientez
38,230 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parkour » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parkour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.kuʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parkour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parkour is uncommon French at frequency #61,767 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \paʁ.kuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Discipline sportive combinant la course, le saut d’obstacles, l’escalade, etc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for parkour, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 parkour, spelled P-A-R-K-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Discipline sportive combinant la course, le saut d’obstacles, l’escalade, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parkour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme de nombreux subway surfeurs, les Berlin Kidz pratiquent d’autres disciplines urbaines : le parkour (qui consiste à franchir des obstacles urbains et à sauter sur les toits et les murs), le graffiti, le tatouage, le skateboard et l’urbex (la visite de lieux abandonnés, souvent difficiles et interdits d’accès).
D’après les dernières informations divulguées, le jeune homme était un adepte de parkour, une discipline qui consiste à utiliser le décor urbain pour réaliser des figures acrobatiques.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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