parry

verb

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The verdict

“parry” is uncommon French (frequency #51,648 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,648
frequency rank, French
248,534
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Parer.

Key facts for parry
PropertyValue
Headwordparry
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters5
Frequency rank#51,648
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “parry” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). parry lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

parry is uncommon French at frequency #51,648 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Parer.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for parry, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is parry, spelled P-A-R-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Parer.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parry"?
"parry" is spelled P-A-R-R-Y.
What does "parry" mean?
As a verb, "parry" means: Parer.
What language does "parry" come from?
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Using “parry”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-A-R-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list