percuteur
\pɛʁ.ky.tœʁ\
The verdict
“percuteur” is uncommon French (frequency #75,996 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,996
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce agissant par percussion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percuteur · percuteur · French
percuteur · rank #75,996 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,996
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pends
Nearest frequency peer: pends (-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 « percuteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peco
peco
24,010 corpus weight
- pelleter
pelleter
24,008 corpus weight
- pends
pends
24,006 corpus weight
- percuteur
percuteur
24,005 corpus weight
- Pesaro
Pesaro
24,002 corpus weight
- peuplant
peuplant
24,001 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « percuteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percuteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ky.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « percuteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
percuteur is uncommon French at frequency #75,996 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.ky.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for percuteur, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is percuteur, spelled P-E-R-C-U-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Pièce agissant par percussion.
- 2En particulier, pièce qui, dans les armes à feu, détermine par son choc sur la capsule de fulminate l’inflammation de la poudre.
- 3Outil (fait de bois, d’os ou de pierre) servant à frapper un bloc de pierre pour en détacher des éclats.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how percuteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On fait tourner le barillet et chacun è son tour tirera la gâchette en visant l’autre. Si le percuteur trouve la balle… il y aura un gagnant…
Avec une habileté et un calme déconcertants, elle déverrouilla la sécurité d’un mouvement sec du pouce, et fit glisser la culasse, engageant la première balle dans le canon, le percuteur mantenant relevé.
This word in other languages
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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