percevez
\pɛʁ.sə.ve\
The verdict
“percevez” is uncommon French (frequency #68,537 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,537
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de percevoir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percevez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sə.ve\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “percevez” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
percevez is uncommon French at frequency #68,537 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.sə.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for percevez in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is percevez, spelled P-E-R-C-E-V-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de percevoir.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de 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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Using “percevez”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-R-C-E-V-E-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛʁ.sə.ve\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.