sans pareil

/\sɑ̃ pa.ʁɛj\/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sans pareil is anFrenchadj. It means: Excellent, supérieur dans son genre. Pronounced \sɑ̃ pa.ʁɛj\.

Key facts for sans pareil
PropertyValue
Headwordsans pareil
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\sɑ̃ pa.ʁɛj\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sans pareil is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sans pareil is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃ pa.ʁɛj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Excellent, supérieur dans son genre.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sans pareil in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 sans pareil, spelled S-A-N-S- -P-A-R-E-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Excellent, supérieur dans son genre.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sans pareil"?
"sans pareil" is spelled S-A-N-S- -P-A-R-E-I-L. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃ pa.ʁɛj\.
What does "sans pareil" mean?
As an adj, "sans pareil" means: Excellent, supérieur dans son genre.
How do you pronounce "sans pareil"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sans pareil" is \sɑ̃ pa.ʁɛj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sans pareil" come from?
"sans pareil" 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.