perçante
\pɛʁ.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“perçante” is uncommon French (frequency #96,238 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,238
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de perçant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percante · perçante · French
perçante · rank #96,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,238
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pentecôtistes
Nearest frequency peer: pentecôtistes (-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 « perçante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pelleteuses
pelleteuses
3,767 corpus weight
- pendaisons
pendaisons
3,766 corpus weight
- pentecôtist…
pentecôtistes
3,764 corpus weight
- perçante
perçante
3,763 corpus weight
- petar
petar
3,762 corpus weight
- philosophia
philosophia
3,760 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perçante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perçante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perçante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perçante is uncommon French at frequency #96,238 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛʁ.sɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de perçant.".
perçante doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is perçante, spelled P-E-R-Ç-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de perçant.
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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