parry

verb

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The verdict

“parry” is uncommon French (frequency #51,648 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,648
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-parry · parry · French

parry · rank #51,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,648
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH parlants

Nearest frequency peer: parlants (-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 « parry »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for parry
PropertyValue
Headwordparry
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters5
Frequency rank#51,648
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « parry » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).parrytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « parlants » (#51,647), « parthes » (#51,649), « paralysant » (#51,646). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « parry » est au #51,648. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

parry is uncommon French at frequency #51,648 among 6,826 “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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how parry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. He parried the blow with his arm.
  2. Swordfighters are trained to thrust and parry.

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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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "parry", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pampa#51,644Peyre#51,656pines#51,659ribot#51,707

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list