parler
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#245
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
parler is aFrenchverb. It means: User de la faculté du langage ; proférer, prononcer, articuler des mots. Pronounced \paʁ.le\. It ranks #245 in French word frequency. Often confused with payer and prier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for parler is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #245 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for parler, with forms such as "aprler", "palrer", and "parelr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "payer", "prier", "parte", 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 parler, spelled P-A-R-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1User de la faculté du langage ; proférer, prononcer, articuler des mots.
- 2Imiter le langage de l’homme, en parlant de certains oiseaux comme les perroquets, les sansonnets, les geais, les pies, etc.
- 3Exprimer sa pensée en articulant les mots d’une langue.
- 4S’exprimer sur certains sujets.
- 5Adresser la parole, avoir un entretien, converser.
- 6S’entretenir de.
- 7Révéler, dévoiler quelque chose.
- 8Expliquer ses sentiments, sa pensée, déclarer son intention, sa volonté.
- 9Intervenir, prendre la parole pour ou contre quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 10Prononcer un discours, prendre la parole en public.
- 11Expliquer sa pensée par écrit.
- 12Manifester ses sentiments, ses pensées par un autre moyen que celui de la parole.
- 13Provoquer des émotions, des sentiments en parlant des choses qui ont ou qui semblent avoir une sorte de langage.
- 14Démontrer ou confirmer ses qualités.
- 15Se servir d’un langage.
- 16S’entretenir de quelque chose, en raisonner, en discourir.
- 17Être sceptique sur le sujet.
- 18Mettre en mots ou en récit un psychotraumatisme de façon à en alerter autrui et/ou à en réduire les séquelles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprler,palrer,parelr,parlerr,parller,parlre,parrler,pparler,praler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "parler"
Frequency rank: #245 in French
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