perdrix
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,824
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
perdrix is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom normalisé réservé à six genres de gallinacés de petite taille, de la sous-famille des perdicinés (e.g. cailles, francolins, lagopèdes, etc.) et au sein de la famille des phasianidés, vivant en ... Pronounced \pɛʁ.dʁi\. Often confused with perrin and perdre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perdrix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.dʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perdrix is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.dʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,824 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for perdrix, with forms such as "eprdrix", "pedrrix", and "perddrix". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "perrin", "perdre", "perdra", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is perdrix, spelled P-E-R-D-R-I-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom normalisé réservé à six genres de gallinacés de petite taille, de la sous-famille des perdicinés (e.g. cailles, francolins, lagopèdes, etc.) et au sein de la famille des phasianidés, vivant en Europe, en Asie ou en Afrique du Nord, dont les genres les mieux connus sont Perdix (incluant la perdrix grise) et Alectoris (qui inclut la perdrix rouge, la perdrix bartavelle, la perdrix choukar, etc.).
- 2Nom donné à diverses autres espèces d’oiseaux pouvant rappeler les perdrix proprement dites.
- 3Nom donné à diverses autres espèces d’oiseaux pouvant rappeler les perdrix proprement dites.
- 4Viande de perdrix.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprdrix,pedrrix,perddrix,perdirx,perdrixx,perdrrix,perdrxi,perrdix,perrdrix,pperdrix,predrix
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Misspelling Variants of "perdrix"
Frequency rank: #33,824 in French
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