particulier

/\paʁ.ti.ky.lje\/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#693

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

particulier is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui présente une caractéristique spéciale, qui appartient, proprement et singulièrement, à certaines personnes ou à certaines choses ; qui n’est pas commun à d’autres personnes, à d’autres choses d... Pronounced \paʁ.ti.ky.lje\. It ranks #693 in French word frequency. Often confused with particuliers and particulière.

Key facts for particulier
PropertyValue
Headwordparticulier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\paʁ.ti.ky.lje\
Letters11
Frequency rank#693
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of particulier in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for particulier is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.ti.ky.lje\. Corpus data places it at rank #693 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for particulier, with forms such as "aprticulier", "paritculier", and "parrticulier". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "particuliers", "particulière", "particulières", 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 particulier, spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-U-L-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui présente une caractéristique spéciale, qui appartient, proprement et singulièrement, à certaines personnes ou à certaines choses ; qui n’est pas commun à d’autres personnes, à d’autres choses de même espèce.
  2. 2
    Par opposition à « général ».
  3. 3
    Par opposition à « public ».
  4. 4
    Qui est séparé, distinct d’une autre chose de même nature, à part.
  5. 5
    Qui est singulier, extraordinaire, peu commun.
  6. 6
    Qui est particularisé, détaillé, circonstancié.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aprticulier,paritculier,parrticulier,partciulier,particculier,particluier,particuiler,particuleir,particulierr,particulire,particullier,partiuclier,partticulier,patriculier,pparticulier,praticulier

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for particulier

Misspelling Variants of "particulier"

aprticulier11paritculier11parrticulier12partciulier11particculier12particluier11particuiler11particuleir11
Misspelling Variants of "particulier"

Frequency rank: #693 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "particulier"?
"particulier" is spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-U-L-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ.ti.ky.lje\.
What does "particulier" mean?
As an adj, "particulier" means: Qui présente une caractéristique spéciale, qui appartient, proprement et singulièrement, à certaines personnes ou à certaines choses ; qui n’est pas commun à d’autres personnes, à d’autres choses d...
What words are commonly confused with "particulier"?
"particulier" is commonly confused with "particuliers", "particulière", "particulières". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "particulier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "particulier" is \paʁ.ti.ky.lje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "particulier" come from?
"particulier" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.