percevant
\pɛʁ.sə.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“percevant” is uncommon French (frequency #50,411 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,411
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe percevoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percevant · percevant · French
percevant · rank #50,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,411
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH penguin
Nearest frequency peer: penguin (-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 « percevant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paya
paya
49,593 corpus weight
- pec
pec
49,592 corpus weight
- penguin
penguin
49,591 corpus weight
- percevant
percevant
49,590 corpus weight
- perpétrées
perpétrées
49,589 corpus weight
- peul
peul
49,588 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « percevant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percevant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sə.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « percevant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
percevant is uncommon French at frequency #50,411 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.sə.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe percevoir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for percevant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is percevant, spelled P-E-R-C-E-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe percevoir.
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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