perd
\pɛʁ\
The verdict
“perd” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,928. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,928
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de perdre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perd · perd · French
perd · rank #1,928 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,928
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pensais
Nearest frequency peer: pensais (-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 « perd »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pain
pain
98,076 corpus weight
- paroles
paroles
98,075 corpus weight
- pensais
pensais
98,074 corpus weight
- perd
perd
98,073 corpus weight
- plans
plans
98,072 corpus weight
- pouvons
pouvons
98,071 corpus weight
What this shows « perd » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perd |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perd »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around perd (IPA \pɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,928 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de perdre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for perd, with forms such as "eprd", "pedr", and "perdd". 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, "Pr", "peu", "pro", 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, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is perd, spelled P-E-R-D.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de perdre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Évidemment vous me direz que les vers sont plus courts et que l’on perd, à la quantité, sur la prose, mais le vers est plus difficile à écrire et c’est pour cela que nous le tarifons plus cher.
L’écrivain a tel pouvoir, que le patron ne doit rien charger qu’en sa présence, ni aucun marinier ne doit lever des marchandises, ni les décharger à terre, ni les désestiver sans sa connaissance ; et si quelque chose se perd dans le navire, comme balle, fardeau, ou autres marchandises, ou toute autre chose qu’il aura écrite, ou qui aura été chargée en sa…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprd
- pedr
- perdd
- perrd
- pperd
- pred
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perd - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).