perchoir
\pɛʁ.ʃwaʁ\
The verdict
“perchoir” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,344. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,344
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bâton ou l’ensemble des bâtons où l’on fait percher les oiseaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perchoir · perchoir · French
perchoir · rank #46,344 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,344
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perdrez
Nearest frequency peer: perdrez (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « perchoir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- payables
payables
53,660 corpus weight
- pectoraux
pectoraux
53,659 corpus weight
- perchoir
perchoir
53,657 corpus weight
- perdrez
perdrez
53,656 corpus weight
- Perl
Perl
53,655 corpus weight
- pernicieux
pernicieux
53,654 corpus weight
What this shows « perchoir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perchoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ʃwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perchoir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around perchoir (IPA \pɛʁ.ʃwaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,344 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for perchoir, with forms such as "eprchoir", "pecrhoir", and "percchoir". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "perçoit", "perçois", "percevoir", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 perchoir, spelled P-E-R-C-H-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Bâton ou l’ensemble des bâtons où l’on fait percher les oiseaux.
- 2Lieu où quelqu’un se perche ; Tribune pour haranguer.
- 3Siège du président de l’Assemblée nationale en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perchoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur des perchoirs scellés dans la muraille étaient deux ou trois faucons de choix et une petite pie-grièche avec laquelle Charles IX s’amusait à voler les petits oiseaux dans le jardin du Louvre […]
Exposé sur le balcon, il faisait de son perchoir une tribune où il tenait, du matin jusqu’au soir, des discours interminables.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprchoir
- pecrhoir
- percchoir
- perchhoir
- perchior
- perchoirr
- perchori
- percohir
- perhcoir
- perrchoir
- pperchoir
- prechoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perchoir - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).