pec
\pɛk\
The verdict
“pec” is uncommon French (frequency #50,409 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,409
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désigne du hareng en caque fraîchement salé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pec · pec · French
pec · rank #50,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,409
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paya
Nearest frequency peer: paya (-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 « pec »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pauwels
Pauwels
49,595 corpus weight
- pavaner
pavaner
49,594 corpus weight
- paya
paya
49,593 corpus weight
- pec
pec
49,592 corpus weight
- penguin
penguin
49,591 corpus weight
- percevant
percevant
49,590 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pec » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #50,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pec » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pec is uncommon French at frequency #50,409 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Désigne du hareng en caque fraîchement salé.".
pec has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pec, spelled P-E-C.
Definition
- 1Désigne du hareng en caque fraîchement salé.
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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