parpaillot
\paʁ.pa.jo\
The verdict
“parpaillot” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Protestant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parpaillot · parpaillot · French
parpaillot · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parpaillot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.pa.jo\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parpaillot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parpaillot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \paʁ.pa.jo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for parpaillot in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is parpaillot, spelled P-A-R-P-A-I-L-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Protestant.
- 2Celui qui ne pratique pas sa religion ou qui n’a pas de religion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parpaillot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces misérables parpaillots, si on veut les noyer, il faudra les jeter à l’eau comme les chats, avant qu’ils ne voient clair.
Le débat qui se poursuit aujourd’hui n’est donc qu’une nouvelle face du grand débat qui a abouti à la Saint-Barthélémy. Si Lorraine règne, messieurs, malheur aux parpaillots maudits, convertis ou non !
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.