percuter

\pɛʁ.ky.te\

/\pɛʁ.ky.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“percuter” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,905
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frapper, avec l’idée d’un choc violent.

Corpus desk

Index FR-percuter · percuter · French

percuter · rank #29,905 · 12 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,905
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH participaient

Nearest frequency peer: participaient (-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 « percuter »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « percuter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

percuter vs perdurer
75% similar
percuter vs persécuter
80% similar
percuter vs percer
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for percuter
PropertyValue
Headwordpercuter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pɛʁ.ky.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#29,905
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « percuter »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).percuterse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « participaient » (#29,904), « piazza » (#29,906), « papauté » (#29,903). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « percuter » est au #29,905. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around percuter (IPA \pɛʁ.ky.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,905 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for percuter, with forms such as "eprcuter", "pecruter", and "perccuter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "perdurer", "persécuter", "percer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is percuter, spelled P-E-R-C-U-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Frapper, avec l’idée d’un choc violent.
  2. 2
    Affronter ; s’opposer.
  3. 3
    Frapper, selon certaines règles, telle ou telle partie du corps pour en reconnaître l’élasticité ou la sonorité ou pour apprécier les réflexes que l’on provoque ainsi.
  4. 4
    Comprendre ; se rendre compte.
  5. 5
    Activer ou déclencher par une action manuelle assez violente un mécanisme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how percuter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Par un manque de chance pervers, il apparut à l'autre bout du couloir à l’instant où elle s’y précipitait, et il s'en fallut de peu qu'elle le percutât.
  2. Fin de pause, la route nous attend. Les biquettes me narguent tout le long du chemin, sont-elles des amies de celle que j’avais percutée lors du dernier voyage ?

Synonyms

heurterimprimer

This word in other languages

collide(English)chocar(Español)atropelar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eprcuter
  • pecruter
  • perccuter
  • perctuer
  • percuetr
  • percuterr
  • percutre
  • percutter
  • perrcuter
  • peructer
  • ppercuter
  • precuter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of percuter - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

eprcuter2pecruter2perccuter1perctuer2percuetr2percuterr1percutre2percutter1
Edit distance from "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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "percuter"?
"percuter" is spelled P-E-R-C-U-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.ky.te\.
What does "percuter" mean?
As a verb, "percuter" means: Frapper, avec l’idée d’un choc violent.
What words are commonly confused with "percuter"?
"percuter" is commonly confused with "perdurer", "persécuter", "percer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "percuter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "percuter" is \pɛʁ.ky.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "percuter" come from?
"percuter" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "percuter", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list