percées

\pɛʁ.se\

/\pɛʁ.se\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « percées » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

percées vs pères
57% similar
percées vs pertes
71% similar
percées vs perles
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for percées
PropertyValue
Headwordpercées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pɛʁ.se\
Letters7
Frequency rank#27,905
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « percées »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).percéesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « paysannes » (#27,904), « Periode » (#27,906), « paradoxes » (#27,903). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « percées » est au #27,905. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de percé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how percées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

eprcées2pecrées2perccées1percees1perceés2percéess1percése2perrcées1
Edit distance from "percées"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "percées"?
"percées" is spelled P-E-R-C-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.se\.
What does "percées" mean?
As an adjective, "percées" means: Féminin pluriel de percé.
What words are commonly confused with "percées"?
"percées" is commonly confused with "pères", "pertes", "perles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "percées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "percées" is \pɛʁ.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "percées" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "percées", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list