perçait
\pɛʁ.sɛ\
The verdict
“perçait” is uncommon French (frequency #97,272 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,272
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de percer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percait · perçait · French
perçait · rank #97,272 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,272
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH personelle
Nearest frequency peer: personelle (-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 « perçait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pencherait
pencherait
2,734 corpus weight
- pencil
pencil
2,733 corpus weight
- personelle
personelle
2,730 corpus weight
- perçait
perçait
2,729 corpus weight
- Petitot
Petitot
2,728 corpus weight
- pickle
pickle
2,724 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perçait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perçait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perçait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perçait is uncommon French at frequency #97,272 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de percer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for perçait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is perçait, spelled P-E-R-Ç-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de percer.
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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