rendre la pareille
\ʁɑ̃.dʁə la pa.ʁɛj\
The verdict
“rendre la pareille” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire à quelqu’un ce qu’il a fait vis-à-vis de soi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rendre la pareille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.dʁə la pa.ʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rendre la pareille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rendre la pareille is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑ̃.dʁə la pa.ʁɛj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rendre la pareille, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rendre la pareille, spelled R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-A- -P-A-R-E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Faire à quelqu’un ce qu’il a fait vis-à-vis de soi.
- 2Faire à quelqu’un ce qu’il a fait vis-à-vis de soi.
- 3Faire à quelqu’un ce qu’il a fait vis-à-vis de soi.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “rendre la pareille”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-A- -P-A-R-E-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁɑ̃.dʁə la pa.ʁɛj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.