parvenais
\paʁ.və.nɛ\
The verdict
“parvenais” is uncommon French (frequency #78,716 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,716
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de parvenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parvenais · parvenais · French
parvenais · rank #78,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,716
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH partagerez
Nearest frequency peer: partagerez (-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 « parvenais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pangolin
pangolin
21,288 corpus weight
- paralysante
paralysante
21,287 corpus weight
- partagerez
partagerez
21,286 corpus weight
- parvenais
parvenais
21,285 corpus weight
- passai
passai
21,284 corpus weight
- passionnait
passionnait
21,283 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parvenais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parvenais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.və.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parvenais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parvenais is uncommon French at frequency #78,716 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \paʁ.və.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for parvenais, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is parvenais, spelled P-A-R-V-E-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de parvenir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de parvenir.
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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