parti pris

/\paʁ.ti pʁi\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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similar word pairs

parti pris is aFrenchnoun. It means: Choix partial ou partisan, action de prendre parti pour ou contre quelque chose ou quelqu’un ; le résultat de cette action. Pronounced \paʁ.ti pʁi\.

Key facts for parti pris
PropertyValue
Headwordparti pris
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\paʁ.ti pʁi\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

parti pris is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for parti pris is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.ti pʁi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Choix partial ou partisan, action de prendre parti pour ou contre quelque chose ou quelqu’un ; le résultat de cette action.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for parti pris in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is parti pris, spelled P-A-R-T-I- -P-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Choix partial ou partisan, action de prendre parti pour ou contre quelque chose ou quelqu’un ; le résultat de cette action.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parti pris"?
"parti pris" is spelled P-A-R-T-I- -P-R-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ.ti pʁi\.
What does "parti pris" mean?
As a noun, "parti pris" means: Choix partial ou partisan, action de prendre parti pour ou contre quelque chose ou quelqu’un ; le résultat de cette action.
How do you pronounce "parti pris"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parti pris" is \paʁ.ti pʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parti pris" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.