partiesvspartnerTell them apart

Quick tell: parties is a adjective, partner is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“parties” is an adjective and “partner” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,145
“parties” frequency rank
#35,196
“partner” frequency rank
36341
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature parties partner
Definition Féminin pluriel de parti. Variante ancienne (restée vivante au Canada) de partenaire.

Letter map: parties vs partner

Shared letters muted; letters that set parties and partner apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch
parties
7 ch
partner

Part-of-speech tell for parties / partner

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: parties is anadjective and partneranoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36341, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

parties is recorded at frequency rank #1,145, classified as anadj, pronounced \paʁ.ti\. partner is at rank #35,196, tagged as anoun.

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 36341, this pair ranks #270,287 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of parties vs partner

Shared letters: aeprt. Private to "parties": is. Private to "partner": n.

"parties" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC  ·  "partner" · 7 letters · shape CVCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • partiesaprties · parites · parrties · parteis · partiess · partise · partties · patries
  • partneraprtner · parnter · parrtner · partenr · partnerr · partnner · partnre · parttner

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "parties" for "partner" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "parties" is an adjective and "partner" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "parties" vs "partner" - which ranks higher?
"parties" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,145 in our French list, against #35,196 for "partner". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "parties" and "partner". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "parties" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "partner" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #270,287 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "parties" and "partner" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "partner vs pater". 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 #270,287 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