parrain
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,283
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
parrain is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui, avec la marraine, présente un enfant (le filleul) aux fonts baptismaux (père spirituel d’un enfant) ou assiste l’enfant de manière analogue dans une cérémonie civile ou d’une autre relig... Pronounced \pa.ʁɛ̃\. It ranks #8,283 in French word frequency. Often confused with perrin and partait.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parrain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for parrain is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,283 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for parrain, with forms such as "aprrain", "parain", and "pararin". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "perrin", "partait", "partais", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is parrain, spelled P-A-R-R-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui, avec la marraine, présente un enfant (le filleul) aux fonts baptismaux (père spirituel d’un enfant) ou assiste l’enfant de manière analogue dans une cérémonie civile ou d’une autre religion ou conviction.
- 2Fils de la marraine.
- 3Toute personne qui présente quelqu’un, qui se porte garant de quelqu’un dans un cercle, dans une société savante.
- 4Celui qui est choisi pour assister à la cérémonie de la bénédiction d’une cloche, d’un navire, et pour lui donner un nom.
- 5Autrefois, dans les combats singuliers, celui que chaque combattant choisissait pour l’accompagner, pour empêcher la surprise et pour lui servir de témoin.
- 6Celui qui est le promoteur d’une idée, d’une théorie, d’une entreprise.
- 7Chef d’une organisation mafieuse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprrain,parain,pararin,parrainn,parrani,parrian,pparrain,prarain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "parrain"
Frequency rank: #8,283 in French
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