percez
\pɛʁ.se\
The verdict
“percez” is uncommon French (frequency #73,430 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,430
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de percer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percez · percez · French
percez · rank #73,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,430
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH percheron
Nearest frequency peer: percheron (+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 « percez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pendues
pendues
26,574 corpus weight
- pendulaire
pendulaire
26,573 corpus weight
- percez
percez
26,571 corpus weight
- percheron
percheron
26,570 corpus weight
- perdantes
perdantes
26,569 corpus weight
- permettrez
permettrez
26,568 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « percez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « percez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
percez is uncommon French at frequency #73,430 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
percez has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 percez, spelled P-E-R-C-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de percer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de percer.
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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