particulier
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | particulier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \paʁ.ti.ky.lje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Qui 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.
- 2Par opposition à « général ».
- 3Par opposition à « public ».
- 4Qui est séparé, distinct d’une autre chose de même nature, à part.
- 5Qui est singulier, extraordinaire, peu commun.
- 6Qui est particularisé, détaillé, circonstancié.
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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"
Frequency rank: #693 in French
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