parrainer
\pa.ʁɛ.ne\
The verdict
“parrainer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,964
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Devenir le parrain d’une personne ou de quelque chose ; lui apporter son soutien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parrainer · parrainer · French
parrainer · rank #38,964 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,964
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parque
Nearest frequency peer: parque (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « parrainer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paracétamol
paracétamol
61,039 corpus weight
- parque
parque
61,038 corpus weight
- parrainer
parrainer
61,037 corpus weight
- partirait
partirait
61,036 corpus weight
- parures
parures
61,035 corpus weight
- pastille
pastille
61,034 corpus weight
What this shows « parrainer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | parrainer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁɛ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « parrainer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around parrainer (IPA \pa.ʁɛ.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,964 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for parrainer, with forms such as "aprrainer", "parainer", and "parariner". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "parrains", "parrain", "parrainé", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is parrainer, spelled P-A-R-R-A-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Devenir le parrain d’une personne ou de quelque chose ; lui apporter son soutien.
- 2Apporter un soutien matériel à une manifestation, à une personne, à un produit ou à une organisation en vue d’en retirer un bénéfice direct.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parrainer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En revanche nombreux sont ceux, élus locaux, hommes politiques, et institutions qui parrainent ouvertement les enfants et des familles menacés d’expulsion.
47 000 personnes sont habilitées à parrainer des candidats à l’élection présidentielle. Peuvent, par exemple, parrainer des candidats : les parlementaires (donc députés et sénateurs), les conseillers régionaux et départementaux, les délégués français de l’étranger, les conseillers de Paris, les maires ou les membres de l’Assemblée de Corse et des assemblé…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprrainer
- parainer
- parariner
- parraienr
- parrainerr
- parrainner
- parrainre
- parranier
- parrianer
- pparrainer
- prarainer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parrainer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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