partievspartiraWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#160
“partie” frequency rank
#14,109
“partira” frequency rank
14269
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature partie partira
Definition Portion d’un tout, morceau d’un ensemble. Troisième personne du singulier du futur de partir.

Where the eye mixes partie and partira

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

6 ch
partie
7 ch
partira

Look-alike desk: partie vs partira

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: partie is \paʁ.ti\ while partira is \paʁ.ti.ʁa\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14269, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

partie is recorded at frequency rank #160, classified as anoun, pronounced \paʁ.ti\. partira is at rank #14,109, tagged as averb, pronounced \paʁ.ti.ʁa\.

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 14269, this pair ranks #397,428 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of partie vs partira

Shared letters: aiprt. Private to "partie": e. Private to "partira": -.

"partie" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV  ·  "partira" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • partieaprtie · parite · parrtie · partei · parttie · ppartie · pratie
  • partiraaprtira · paritra · parrtira · partiar · partirra · partria · parttira · patrira

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "partie" and "partira" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "partie" is a noun and "partira" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "partie" or "partira" show up more?
"partie" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #160 in our French list, against #14,109 for "partira". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "partie" and "partira" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "partie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "partira" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #397,428 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "partie" and "partira" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "partira vs partirais". 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 #397,428 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