parkway
\pɑːk.weɪ\
The verdict
“parkway” is uncommon French (frequency #68,533 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,533
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Promenade, route panoramique principale traversant un parc, ou en reliant plusieurs, sur laquelle les véhicules commerciaux comme les poids lourds sont interdits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parkway · parkway · French
parkway · rank #68,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,533
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paperasserie
Nearest frequency peer: paperasserie (-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 « parkway »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- panaméricai…
panaméricains
31,471 corpus weight
- panza
panza
31,470 corpus weight
- paperasserie
paperasserie
31,469 corpus weight
- parkway
parkway
31,468 corpus weight
- passoires
passoires
31,467 corpus weight
- patrocle
patrocle
31,466 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parkway » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parkway |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑːk.weɪ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parkway » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parkway is uncommon French at frequency #68,533 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɑːk.weɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for parkway, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is parkway, spelled P-A-R-K-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Promenade, route panoramique principale traversant un parc, ou en reliant plusieurs, sur laquelle les véhicules commerciaux comme les poids lourds sont interdits.
- 2Autoroute ou voie rapide présentant de beaux paysages.
- 3Rue avec une bande aménagée entre les deux sens de circulation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parkway appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
From what I understand, 'way' means 'road'. So a driveway is a road that you drive on, typically either to the street or your garage. A parkway is a road through or to a park. Usually parkways are landscaped, or beautified, with medians or trees along the edges.
This project involves the restoration of the Long Sault Parkway, including a new layer of asphalt and geotechnical studies.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).