percutent
\pɛʁ.kyt\
The verdict
“percutent” is uncommon French (frequency #81,432 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,432
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif du verbe percuter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percutent · percutent · French
percutent · rank #81,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,432
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perrière
Nearest frequency peer: perrière (+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 « percutent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- patronus
patronus
18,574 corpus weight
- pav
pav
18,573 corpus weight
- pegi
pegi
18,571 corpus weight
- percutent
percutent
18,569 corpus weight
- perrière
perrière
18,568 corpus weight
- Philippon
Philippon
18,566 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « percutent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percutent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.kyt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « percutent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
percutent is uncommon French at frequency #81,432 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.kyt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
percutent has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is percutent, spelled P-E-R-C-U-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif du verbe percuter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif du verbe percuter.
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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