parlement

/\paʁ.lə.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,300

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

parlement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dans l'ancienne France, jusqu'au XIIIᵉ siècle, assemblée des grands du royaume, que le roi convoquait pour traiter des affaires importantes. Pronounced \paʁ.lə.mɑ̃\. It ranks #1,300 in French word frequency. Often confused with parlent and purement.

Key facts for parlement
PropertyValue
Headwordparlement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\paʁ.lə.mɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,300
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of parlement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for parlement is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.lə.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,300 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for parlement, with forms such as "aprlement", "palrement", and "parelment". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "parlent", "purement", "payement", 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 parlement, spelled P-A-R-L-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dans l'ancienne France, jusqu'au XIIIᵉ siècle, assemblée des grands du royaume, que le roi convoquait pour traiter des affaires importantes.
  2. 2
    Du XIIIᵉ siècle à la Révolution, cour souveraine de justice qui connaissait par appel des jugements des bailliages, sénéchaussées, duchés-pairies, et autres juridictions inférieures de son ressort et qui enregistrait divers textes à caractère législatif, édits et ordonnances, afin qu'ils fussent applicables dans l'étendue de sa juridiction ; désignait souvent la cour souveraine siégeant à Paris. Par l’enregistrement, il avait aussi des attributions politiques.
  3. 3
    Ressort, étendue de la juridiction d’un parlement.
  4. 4
    En Angleterre, les deux chambres ou assemblées qui exercent, avec le roi, le pouvoir législatif, et qui sont formées, l’une des pairs ecclésiastiques et séculiers, l’autre des députés des comtés, des villes et des bourgs.
  5. 5
    En France, assemblées qui partageaient la puissance législative avec le souverain, sous la monarchie constitutionnelle. Les deux assemblées législatives que sont le Sénat et l'Assemblée nationale, réunies en congrès. L'Assemblée nationale et le Sénat, lorsqu'ils légifèrent en assemblées séparées.
  6. 6
    Assemblée des députés européens → voir europarlement.
  7. 7
    Lieu où se réunit l'une de ces assemblées.
  8. 8
    Assemblée parlementaire ou législative.
  9. 9
    Bavardage.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aprlement,palrement,parelment,parleemnt,parlemennt,parlementt,parlemetn,parlemment,parlemnet,parllement,parlmeent,parrlement,pparlement,pralement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parlement

Misspelling Variants of "parlement"

aprlement9palrement9parelment9parleemnt9parlemennt10parlementt10parlemetn9parlemment10
Misspelling Variants of "parlement"

Frequency rank: #1,300 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parlement"?
"parlement" is spelled P-A-R-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ.lə.mɑ̃\.
What does "parlement" mean?
As a noun, "parlement" means: Dans l'ancienne France, jusqu'au XIIIᵉ siècle, assemblée des grands du royaume, que le roi convoquait pour traiter des affaires importantes.
What words are commonly confused with "parlement"?
"parlement" is commonly confused with "parlent", "purement", "payement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "parlement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parlement" is \paʁ.lə.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parlement" come from?
"parlement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.