perforer
\pɛʁ.fɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“perforer” is uncommon French (frequency #61,774 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,774
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Percer une enveloppe résistante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perforer · perforer · French
perforer · rank #61,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,774
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perfectionnée
Nearest frequency peer: perfectionnée (-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 « perforer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- patientez
patientez
38,230 corpus weight
- pelvienne
pelvienne
38,229 corpus weight
- perfectionn…
perfectionnée
38,228 corpus weight
- perforer
perforer
38,227 corpus weight
- perla
perla
38,226 corpus weight
- permutations
permutations
38,225 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perforer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perforer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fɔ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perforer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perforer is uncommon French at frequency #61,774 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.fɔ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Percer une enveloppe résistante.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for perforer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is perforer, spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Percer une enveloppe résistante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perforer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette excision met à découvert le derme qui est perforé et l’ouverture résultant de cette perforation sphacélique laisse échapper quelques gouttes de pus.
Synonyms
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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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