perfidie
\pɛʁ.fi.di\
The verdict
“perfidie” is uncommon French (frequency #60,267 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,267
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déloyauté, manquement de foi, abus de confiance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perfidie · perfidie · French
perfidie · rank #60,267 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,267
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pentium
Nearest frequency peer: Pentium (-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 « perfidie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pavard
pavard
39,737 corpus weight
- penserez
penserez
39,736 corpus weight
- Pentium
Pentium
39,735 corpus weight
- perfidie
perfidie
39,734 corpus weight
- pergola
pergola
39,733 corpus weight
- permien
permien
39,732 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perfidie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perfidie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fi.di\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perfidie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perfidie is uncommon French at frequency #60,267 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.fi.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
perfidie has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is perfidie, spelled P-E-R-F-I-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Déloyauté, manquement de foi, abus de confiance.
- 2Action perfide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perfidie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comparez le prince de Fénelon avec celui de Machiavel; […]. Vous verrez dans l'autre la scélératesse, la perfidie, et tous les crimes.
…c'est lui qui, dans tous les temps, démentira tous les vains subterfuges inventés par la perfidie pour violer impunément les droits de l'humanité.
This word in other languages
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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