percheron
\pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“percheron” is uncommon French (frequency #73,431 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,431
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de cheval de trait, originaire du Perche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percheron · percheron · French
percheron · rank #73,431 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,431
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH percez
Nearest frequency peer: percez (-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 « percheron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- personnifiée
personnifiée
26,567 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « percheron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percheron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « percheron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
percheron is uncommon French at frequency #73,431 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for percheron, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is percheron, spelled P-E-R-C-H-E-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Race de cheval de trait, originaire du Perche.
- 2Langue d’oïl parlée dans le Perche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how percheron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous terminons en disant que l’élevage à l’écurie est un puissant agent de modification : le cheval de pur sang anglais, le boulonnais et le percheron en sont des exemples frappants.
À l’entrée du canal, on attela les deux forts percherons, nourris d’avoine.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).