parra
The verdict
“parra” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,509) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,509
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oiseau de mauvais augure, orfraie, chouette ou huppe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parra · parra · French
parra · rank #42,509 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,509
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parloir
Nearest frequency peer: parloir (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « parra »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- P3
P3
57,495 corpus weight
- parapente
parapente
57,494 corpus weight
- parloir
parloir
57,493 corpus weight
- parra
parra
57,492 corpus weight
- pastiche
pastiche
57,491 corpus weight
- patrouiller
patrouiller
57,490 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « parra » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | parra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « parra »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for parra is neighbouring look-alikes ("part", "pars", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #42,509 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Oiseau de mauvais augure, orfraie, chouette ou huppe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for parra, with forms such as "aprra", "parar", and "pparra". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "part", "pars", "paru", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 parra, spelled P-A-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1Oiseau de mauvais augure, orfraie, chouette ou huppe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how parra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
picus et cornix ab laevā, corvus, parra ab dexterā consuadent
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprra
- parar
- pparra
- prara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parra - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).