perfore
\pɛʁ.fɔʁ\
The verdict
“perfore” is uncommon French (frequency #86,009 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,009
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de perforer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perfore · perfore · French
perfore · rank #86,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,009
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH perturbait
Nearest frequency peer: perturbait (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “perfore”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pella
pella
13,996 corpus weight
- peloter
peloter
13,995 corpus weight
- penchons
penchons
13,994 corpus weight
- perfore
perfore
13,992 corpus weight
- perturbait
perturbait
13,991 corpus weight
- petrol
petrol
13,989 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “perfore” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perfore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perfore” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
perfore is uncommon French at frequency #86,009 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.fɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
perfore has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is perfore, spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de perforer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de perforer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de perforer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de perforer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de perforer.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "perfore", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.