percutante
\pɛʁ.ky.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“percutante” is uncommon French (frequency #58,151 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,151
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de percutant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percutante · percutante · French
percutante · rank #58,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,151
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pelleteuse
Nearest frequency peer: pelleteuse (-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 « percutante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pebble
pebble
41,853 corpus weight
- pelleteuse
pelleteuse
41,851 corpus weight
- percutante
percutante
41,850 corpus weight
- perforée
perforée
41,849 corpus weight
- perpétuels
perpétuels
41,848 corpus weight
- Perreux
Perreux
41,847 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « percutante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percutante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ky.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « percutante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
percutante is uncommon French at frequency #58,151 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛʁ.ky.tɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de percutant.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for percutante, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is percutante, spelled P-E-R-C-U-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de percutant.
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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