Perpignan
/ˈpɜːpɪnjɒn/
"perpignan" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Perpignan” is uncommon English (frequency #61,699 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,699
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city, the capital of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France, formerly in Languedoc-Roussillon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Perpignan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɜːpɪnjɒn/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Perpignan” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Perpignan is uncommon English at frequency #61,699 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈpɜːpɪnjɒn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the capital of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France, formerly in Languedoc-Roussillon.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Perpignan in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Perpignan, from Latin Perpenniānum, from the given name Perpenna. The correct English form is Perpignan, spelled P-E-R-P-I-G-N-A-N.
Definition
- 1A city, the capital of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France, formerly in Languedoc-Roussillon.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Perpignan, from Latin Perpenniānum, from the given name Perpenna.
This word in other languages
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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- The one correct English spelling is P-E-R-P-I-G-N-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.