père
/pɛə(ɹ)/
"pere" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“père” is uncommon English (frequency #66,962 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,962
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A priest of the Roman Catholic Church, especially a French one. Also used as a title preceding the name of such a priest.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pere · père · English
père · rank #66,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,962
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH prunus
Nearest frequency peer: prunus (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “père”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- provolone
provolone
33,043 corpus weight
- prow
prow
33,042 corpus weight
- prunus
prunus
33,041 corpus weight
- père
père
33,039 corpus weight
- Ramsden
Ramsden
33,035 corpus weight
- raper
raper
33,034 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “père” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | père |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɛə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “père” in English
Rare enough to double-check
père is uncommon English at frequency #66,962 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɛə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for père, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French père (“father”), from Latin pater. Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and pater. The correct English form is père, spelled P-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1A priest of the Roman Catholic Church, especially a French one. Also used as a title preceding the name of such a priest.
- 2Sr. - Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the father is being referred to rather than the son (junior, fils).
Etymology
Borrowed from French père (“father”), from Latin pater. Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and pater.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).