parricide
\pa.ʁi.sid\
The verdict
“parricide” is uncommon French (frequency #66,977 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,977
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Meurtre par lequel quelqu’un tue un de ses parents, père, mère ou proche dans la famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parricide · parricide · French
parricide · rank #66,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,977
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parasiter
Nearest frequency peer: parasiter (-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 « parricide »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paramétrer
paramétrer
33,027 corpus weight
- parant
parant
33,026 corpus weight
- parasiter
parasiter
33,025 corpus weight
- parricide
parricide
33,024 corpus weight
- particular
particular
33,023 corpus weight
- parviendrons
parviendrons
33,022 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parricide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parricide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁi.sid\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parricide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parricide is uncommon French at frequency #66,977 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁi.sid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for parricide, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 parricide, spelled P-A-R-R-I-C-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Meurtre par lequel quelqu’un tue un de ses parents, père, mère ou proche dans la famille.
- 2Personne commettant un tel acte ou meurtre.
- 3Personne qui tue un personnage qui est considéré comme un père : un souverain, un protecteur, un bienfaiteur de l’humanité, par exemple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parricide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais comme il est chargé de rendre compte du procès du parricide, on lui a demandé de câbler votre affaire en même temps.
Non, parricide vil et impur, répliqua la voix ; pense à ton père, pense à sa mort ! pense à cette salle de festins inondée de son sang, de ce sang répandu par la main d’un fils !
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).