particule
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,550
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
particule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite partie. Pronounced \paʁ.ti.kyl\. Often confused with partielle and particules.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | particule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.ti.kyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for particule is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.ti.kyl\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,550 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for particule, with forms such as "aprticule", "paritcule", and "parrticule". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "partielle", "particules", "particulier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 particule, spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite partie.
- 2Constituant élémentaire non continu de la matière.
- 3Mot-outil invariable très court qui ne se classe dans aucune catégorie lexicale majeure.
- 4Mot-outil invariable très court, tel que la plupart des prépositions, conjonctions et interjections.
- 5Petit mot invariable qui ne peut point être employé seul et qui s’unit à un radical pour le modifier et former un seul mot avec lui.
- 6Préposition qui précède un nom de famille.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprticule,paritcule,parrticule,partciule,particcule,particlue,particuel,particulle,partiucle,partticule,patricule,pparticule,praticule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for particule
Misspelling Variants of "particule"
Frequency rank: #18,550 in French
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