percer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,053
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
percer is aFrenchverb. It means: Traverser en faisant un trou ou une ouverture ; perforer. Pronounced \pɛʁ.se\. It ranks #9,053 in French word frequency. Often confused with père and perte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for percer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,053 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for percer, with forms such as "eprcer", "pecrer", and "perccer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is percer, spelled P-E-R-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Traverser en faisant un trou ou une ouverture ; perforer.
- 2Faire plusieurs blessures avec une arme blanche.
- 3Mettre en perce, faire une ouverture à un tonneau, pour en tirer le vin.
- 4Pénétrer, passer à travers.
- 5Se faire entendre au loin.
- 6Pratiquer une ouverture.
- 7Pénétrer, découvrir par les yeux de l’esprit.
- 8Se faire ouverture, se frayer un passage.
- 9Faire une percée.
- 10Tirer de long.
- 11Se déceler, se manifester, se faire jour.
- 12Avancer dans une profession, dans le monde, acquérir de la réputation.
- 13Se manifester ; apparaître.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprcer,pecrer,perccer,percerr,percre,perecr,perrcer,ppercer,precer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for percer
Misspelling Variants of "percer"
Frequency rank: #9,053 in French
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