parliament
\ˈpɑː.lə.mənt\
The verdict
“parliament” is uncommon French (frequency #59,517 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,517
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parlement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parliament · parliament · French
parliament · rank #59,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,517
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parieur
Nearest frequency peer: parieur (-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 « parliament »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pariant
pariant
40,486 corpus weight
- parieur
parieur
40,485 corpus weight
- parliament
parliament
40,484 corpus weight
- parpaing
parpaing
40,483 corpus weight
- participère…
participèrent
40,482 corpus weight
- particulari…
particularismes
40,481 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parliament » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parliament |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɑː.lə.mənt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parliament » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parliament is uncommon French at frequency #59,517 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpɑː.lə.mənt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for parliament in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is parliament, spelled P-A-R-L-I-A-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Parlement.
- 2Législature; composition ou durée d'un parlement depuis sa constitution suite aux élections jusqu'à sa dissolution en vue des prochaines élections.
- 3Groupe de chouettes ou de hiboux.
Synonyms
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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