parles
\paʁl\
The verdict
“parles” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,750. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,750
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de parler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parles · parles · French
parles · rank #1,750 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,750
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH quatrième
Nearest frequency peer: quatrième (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « parles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nommé
nommé
98,255 corpus weight
- notes
notes
98,254 corpus weight
- oublie
oublie
98,253 corpus weight
- parles
parles
98,251 corpus weight
- quatrième
quatrième
98,250 corpus weight
- quitte
quitte
98,249 corpus weight
What this shows « parles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « parles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around parles (IPA \paʁl\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,750 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for parles, with forms such as "aprles", "palres", and "parels". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "près", "pars", "parts", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is parles, spelled P-A-R-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de parler.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de parler.
- 3Forme de la deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif parle, de parler, employée devant en et y.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu parles comme un journaleux…
T’es de Vierzon ou faut que je te pisse dessus pour que tu parles ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprles
- palres
- parels
- parless
- parlles
- parlse
- parrles
- pparles
- prales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parles - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "parles", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).