ParaventvspartentWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Paravent is a noun, partent is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Paravent” is a noun and “partent” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#37,965
“Paravent” frequency rank
#5,163
“partent” frequency rank
43128
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Paravent partent
Definition Paravent. Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de partir.

Letter map: Paravent vs partent

Shared letters muted; letters that set Paravent and partent apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. Paravent runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCC) against partent's 7 (CVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
Paravent
7 ch
partent

Part-of-speech tell for Paravent / partent

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Paravent is anoun and partentaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43128, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Paravent is recorded at frequency rank #37,965, classified as anoun. partent is at rank #5,163, tagged as averb, pronounced \paʁt\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 43128, this pair ranks #220,412 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Paravent vs partent

Shared letters: aenprt. Private to "Paravent": v. Private to "partent": -.

"Paravent" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCC  ·  "partent" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Paraventapravent · paarvent · paraevnt · paravennt · paraventt · paravetn · paravnet · paravvent
  • partentaprtent · paretnt · parrtent · partennt · partentt · partetn · partnet · parttent

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Paravent" for "partent" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Paravent" is a noun and "partent" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "Paravent" or "partent" show up more?
"partent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,163 in our French list, against #37,965 for "Paravent". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "Paravent" vs "partent" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Paravent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "partent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #220,412 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Paravent" and "partent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Parapet vs Paravent". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #220,412 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list