Paros
\pa.ʁɔs\
The verdict
“Paros” is uncommon French (frequency #66,202 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,202
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marbre blanc venant de l’île de Paros.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paros · Paros · French
Paros · rank #66,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,202
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parfume
Nearest frequency peer: parfume (-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 « Paros »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parcellaires
parcellaires
33,802 corpus weight
- parcourez
parcourez
33,801 corpus weight
- parfume
parfume
33,800 corpus weight
- Paros
Paros
33,799 corpus weight
- partagerons
partagerons
33,798 corpus weight
- partiras
partiras
33,797 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Paros » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Paros |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁɔs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Paros » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Paros is uncommon French at frequency #66,202 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Marbre blanc venant de l’île de Paros.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Paros, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Paros, spelled P-A-R-O-S.
Definition
- 1Marbre blanc venant de l’île de Paros.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Paros appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La scénerie du jardin s’allonge au fond en perspective : rien qu’une pelouse, avec une vasque en Paros, où, à l’ombre d’un cyprès, qui y secoue ses panaches, un petit jet d’eau sanglote avec un joli bruit.
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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