partridge
\ˈpɑr.trɪd͡ʒ\
The verdict
“partridge” is uncommon French (frequency #65,396 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,396
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perdrix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-partridge · partridge · French
partridge · rank #65,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,396
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH partnership
Nearest frequency peer: partnership (-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 « partridge »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- participera…
participerait
34,608 corpus weight
- partiraient
partiraient
34,607 corpus weight
- partnership
partnership
34,606 corpus weight
- partridge
partridge
34,605 corpus weight
- patriarcales
patriarcales
34,604 corpus weight
- pauillac
pauillac
34,603 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « partridge » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | partridge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɑr.trɪd͡ʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « partridge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
partridge is uncommon French at frequency #65,396 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpɑr.trɪd͡ʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
partridge has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is partridge, spelled P-A-R-T-R-I-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1Perdrix.
- 2Sa viande, mangé comme nourriture.
- 3Tout oiseau qui pourrait rappeler la perdrix.
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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