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pareil

pareil noun: an equal.

Noun

pareil (plural pareils)

  1. (obsolete, quaint) An equal.
    • Among writers he was a man without pareil.

Forms of pareil

pluralpareils

Origin of pareil

Borrowed from French pareil. By surface analysis, par + -eil (“diminutive suffix”).

Words formed from pareil

Questions about pareil

What does pareil mean?
Pareil means an equal.
What part of speech is pareil?
Pareil is a noun.
What is the plural of pareil?
The plural of pareil is pareils.

Words near pareil in the dictionary

  1. pareiasaurids
  2. pareiasaurs
  3. pareidolia
  4. pareidolias
  5. pareidolic
  6. pareil
  7. pareils
  8. pareira
  9. pareiras
  10. pareirine
  11. Pareja

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pareil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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