perçage
\pɛʁ.saʒ\
The verdict
“perçage” is uncommon French (frequency #63,239 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,239
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de percer ou état de ce qui est percé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percage · perçage · French
perçage · rank #63,239 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,239
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pesez
Nearest frequency peer: pesez (+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 « perçage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pensionnés
pensionnés
36,766 corpus weight
- percevaient
percevaient
36,765 corpus weight
- perméables
perméables
36,764 corpus weight
- perçage
perçage
36,762 corpus weight
- pesez
pesez
36,761 corpus weight
- piquées
piquées
36,759 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perçage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perçage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perçage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perçage is uncommon French at frequency #63,239 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.saʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for perçage in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is perçage, spelled P-E-R-Ç-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de percer ou état de ce qui est percé.
- 2Pratique qui consiste à percer une partie du corps pour y mettre un bijou (anneau, prince Albert, etc.)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perçage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le perçage (encore appelé forage) consiste à pratiquer un trou dans une pièce pleine.
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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