perfide Albion
\pɛʁ.fi.d‿al.bjɔ̃\
The verdict
“perfide Albion” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Angleterre ; Grande-Bretagne ; Royaume-Uni.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perfide-albion · perfide Albion · French
perfide Albion · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perfide Albion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fi.d‿al.bjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
perfide Albion is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pɛʁ.fi.d‿al.bjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for perfide Albion, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is perfide Albion, spelled P-E-R-F-I-D-E- -A-L-B-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Angleterre ; Grande-Bretagne ; Royaume-Uni.
- 2Synonyme de Grande-Bretagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perfide Albion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est qu’à l’époque où mes amis et moi nous faisions de la propagande en faveur de la liberté commerciale, on nous en opposait un qui ressemblait tout à fait à celui-là, je veux parler de l’argument de la perfide Albion. On nous disait : Nous accepterions volontiers le libre-échange si les Anglais n’existaient pas.
Mes compagnons de traversée, en gens pratiques, prirent immédiatement possession des trois chambres de l’hôtel Alexandra […]. Comme la perfide Albion avait accaparé tout le logement disponible, je fus réduit à chercher ce qu’un Espagnol appellerait une casa de huespedes, et je finis par trouver une petite chambre chez la veuve Thorsdal, […].
This word in other languages
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