percutants
\pɛʁ.ky.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“percutants” is uncommon French (frequency #70,097 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,097
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de percutant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percutants · percutants · French
percutants · rank #70,097 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,097
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perchiste
Nearest frequency peer: perchiste (-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 « percutants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pectoral
pectoral
29,908 corpus weight
- peinait
peinait
29,907 corpus weight
- perchiste
perchiste
29,905 corpus weight
- percutants
percutants
29,904 corpus weight
- perdes
perdes
29,903 corpus weight
- Perséphone
Perséphone
29,902 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « percutants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percutants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ky.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « percutants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
percutants is uncommon French at frequency #70,097 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛʁ.ky.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de percutant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for percutants in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 percutants, spelled P-E-R-C-U-T-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de percutant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how percutants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Rétais du groupe de musique Les Nouveaux Dossiers ont su enflammer le public avec un son mêlant rock et musette et des textes percutants.
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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