Percy

\pɛʁ.si\

/\pɛʁ.si\/ name

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The verdict

“Percy” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,555. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,555
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Isère.

Corpus desk

Index FR-percy · Percy · French

Percy · rank #18,555 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,555
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH perceptions

Nearest frequency peer: perceptions (-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 « Percy »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Percy » 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).

Percy vs père
20% similar
Percy vs perd
40% similar
Percy vs porc
40% similar

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

Key facts for Percy
PropertyValue
HeadwordPercy
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\pɛʁ.si\
Letters5
Frequency rank#18,555
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Percy »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Percyse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « perceptions » (#18,554), « perron » (#18,556), « pay » (#18,553). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Percy » est au #18,555. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Percy (IPA \pɛʁ.si\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,555 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Percy, with forms such as "eprcy", "pecry", and "perccy". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "père", "perd", "porc", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Percy, spelled P-E-R-C-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département de l’Isère.
  2. 2
    Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Manche intégrée dans la commune de Percy-en-Normandie en janvier 2016.
  3. 3
    Ancien nom de la commune française Percy-en-Auge.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eprcy
  • pecry
  • perccy
  • percyy
  • perrcy
  • peryc
  • ppercy
  • precy

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Percy - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

eprcy2pecry2perccy1percyy1perrcy1peryc2ppercy1precy2
Edit distance from "Percy"

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 "Percy"?
"Percy" is spelled P-E-R-C-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.si\.
What does "Percy" mean?
As a proper noun, "Percy" means: Commune française, située dans le département de l’Isère.
What words are commonly confused with "Percy"?
"Percy" is commonly confused with "père", "perd", "porc". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Percy"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Percy" is \pɛʁ.si\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Percy" come from?
"Percy" 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 "Percy", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

persos8 variantsPhobie8 variantsnoyaux8 variantsMuriel8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list