parfumer
\paʁ.fy.me\
The verdict
“parfumer” is uncommon French (frequency #58,817 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,817
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Imprégner de l’odeur d’un parfum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parfumer · parfumer · French
parfumer · rank #58,817 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,817
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH papote
Nearest frequency peer: papote (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « parfumer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- panafricain
panafricain
41,187 corpus weight
- panafricaine
panafricaine
41,186 corpus weight
- papote
papote
41,185 corpus weight
- parfumer
parfumer
41,184 corpus weight
- parodiques
parodiques
41,183 corpus weight
- Parthenay
Parthenay
41,182 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parfumer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parfumer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.fy.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parfumer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parfumer is uncommon French at frequency #58,817 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \paʁ.fy.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Imprégner de l’odeur d’un parfum.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for parfumer in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is parfumer, spelled P-A-R-F-U-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Imprégner de l’odeur d’un parfum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parfumer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parfumer des gants, du linge, des habits.
Parfumer quelqu’un avec un vaporisateur.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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