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perfidie

French, noun/pɛʁ.fi.di/

perfidie is spelled P-E-R-F-I-D-I-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 59,881st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Perfidie is a French feminine noun meaning “perfidy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déloyauté, manquement de foi, abus de confiance”.

What does perfidie mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineperfidy

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Déloyauté, manquement de foi, abus de confiance. 2. Action perfide.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of perfidie

  • perfidies plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce perfidie?

  • /pɛʁ.fi.di/
  • \pɛʁ.fi.di\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to perfidie

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is perfidie in French?

perfidie appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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