Parsifal
The verdict
“Parsifal” is uncommon French (frequency #71,772 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,772
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perceval.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parsifal · Parsifal · French
Parsifal · rank #71,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,772
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parodiant
Nearest frequency peer: parodiant (-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 « Parsifal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parfumeurs
parfumeurs
28,232 corpus weight
- parlai
parlai
28,231 corpus weight
- parodiant
parodiant
28,230 corpus weight
- Parsifal
Parsifal
28,229 corpus weight
- partibus
partibus
28,228 corpus weight
- paske
paske
28,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Parsifal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Parsifal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Parsifal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Parsifal is uncommon French at frequency #71,772 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Perceval.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Parsifal in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Parsifal, spelled P-A-R-S-I-F-A-L.
Definition
- 1Perceval.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Parsifal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Indeed, in the 1854 draft of Tristan he planned to have Parzival visit the dying knight, and both operas display the same macabre obsession with bloody gore and festering wounds.
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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