percée
\pɛʁ.se\
The verdict
“percée” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,826. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,826
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouverture pratiquée soit pour faire un chemin, soit pour se procurer un point de vue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percee · percée · French
percée · rank #11,826 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,826
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH payent
Nearest frequency peer: payent (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “percée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- paroi
paroi
88,178 corpus weight
- partenariats
partenariats
88,177 corpus weight
- payent
payent
88,176 corpus weight
- percée
percée
88,175 corpus weight
- permette
permette
88,174 corpus weight
- photographes
photographes
88,173 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “percée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “percée” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around percée (IPA \pɛʁ.se\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,826 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for percée, with forms such as "eprcée", "pecrée", and "perccée". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "père", "perte", "pères", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is percée, spelled P-E-R-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Ouverture pratiquée soit pour faire un chemin, soit pour se procurer un point de vue.
- 2Passage de vive force à travers les lignes ennemies.
- 3Avancée, innovation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how percée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], je continuai donc à errer tout à mon aise, jusqu’à ce que enfin, comme je commençais à examiner si les nombreuses petites percées qui s’ouvraient ça et là étaient réellement des chemins, je fusse conduit par la plus invitante de toutes dans une incontestable route carrossable.
Il fallait, aussi, substituer aux grandes percées, rocades ou radiales, la continuation du réseau viaire parisien, en abandonnant la multitude d’alignements nouveaux envisagés à la période précédente et dont le résultat le plus tangible avait été la création de ces « dents creuses » qui déparent tant de rues parisiennes, sans espoir de voir l’alignement g…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprcée
- pecrée
- perccée
- percee
- perceé
- perrcée
- peréce
- ppercée
- precée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of percée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "percée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "percée" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "père". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #11,826 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.