Perec
\pe.ʁɛk\
The verdict
“Perec” is uncommon French (frequency #51,033 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,033
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perec · Perec · French
Perec · rank #51,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,033
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pensionnats
Nearest frequency peer: pensionnats (-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 « Perec »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paternaliste
paternaliste
48,971 corpus weight
- pendantes
pendantes
48,970 corpus weight
- pensionnats
pensionnats
48,969 corpus weight
- Perec
Perec
48,968 corpus weight
- perfides
perfides
48,967 corpus weight
- perplexes
perplexes
48,966 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Perec » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Perec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁɛk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Perec » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Perec is uncommon French at frequency #51,033 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pe.ʁɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Perec in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Perec, spelled P-E-R-E-C.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Perec appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce jour-là, Georges Perec, installé dans le car-studio de France Culture, débute sa Tentative de description de choses vues au carrefour Mabillon le 19 mai 1978.
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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