perfides
\pɛʁ.fid\
The verdict
“perfides” is uncommon French (frequency #51,034 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,034
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de perfide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perfides · perfides · French
perfides · rank #51,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,034
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Perec
Nearest frequency peer: Perec (-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 « perfides »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- perverti
perverti
48,965 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perfides » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perfides |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fid\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perfides » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perfides is uncommon French at frequency #51,034 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.fid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de perfide.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for perfides, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is perfides, spelled P-E-R-F-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de perfide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perfides appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au lieu que les perfides sont les martyrs de leur propre perfidie et paient très cher, horriblement cher, le court plaisir savouré dans le moment où ils l’ont conçue.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).