parlai
\paʁ.le\
The verdict
“parlai” is uncommon French (frequency #71,770 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,770
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de parler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parlai · parlai · French
parlai · rank #71,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,770
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parfumeurs
Nearest frequency peer: parfumeurs (-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 « parlai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pannonie
Pannonie
28,233 corpus weight
- parfumeurs
parfumeurs
28,232 corpus weight
- parlai
parlai
28,231 corpus weight
- parodiant
parodiant
28,230 corpus weight
- Parsifal
Parsifal
28,229 corpus weight
- partibus
partibus
28,228 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parlai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parlai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parlai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parlai is uncommon French at frequency #71,770 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \paʁ.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple de parler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for parlai in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is parlai, spelled P-A-R-L-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de parler.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).