percées
\pɛʁ.se\
The verdict
“percées” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,905
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de percé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percees · percées · French
percées · rank #27,905 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,905
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paysannes
Nearest frequency peer: paysannes (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « percées »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paradoxale
paradoxale
72,099 corpus weight
- paradoxes
paradoxes
72,098 corpus weight
- paysannes
paysannes
72,097 corpus weight
- percées
percées
72,096 corpus weight
- Periode
Periode
72,095 corpus weight
- Philipp
Philipp
72,094 corpus weight
What this shows « percées » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | percées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « percées »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around percées (IPA \pɛʁ.se\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,905 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de percé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for percées, with forms such as "eprcées", "pecrées", and "perccées". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pères", "pertes", "perles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is percées, spelled P-E-R-C-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de percé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how percées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le PERCE-OREILLE, forficula, Mouffet, oreillère, auricularia, a été ainsi nommé parce qu’il porte au derrière une espèce de pince dont les branches réunies ressemblent assez aux anneaux qu’on porte aux oreilles nouvellement percées.
Elle ne supportait pas qu’il se rabaisse, porte à l’extérieur un vêtement de travail plein de taches de peinture, qu’il sorte avec les cheveux en bataille, la barbe mal rasée, des chaussures percées et des chaussettes trouées aux pieds.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprcées
- pecrées
- perccées
- percees
- perceés
- percéess
- percése
- perrcées
- peréces
- ppercées
- precées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of percées - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).