performé
\pɛʁ.fɔʁ.me\
The verdict
“performé” is uncommon French (frequency #78,730 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,730
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe performer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-performe · performé · French
performé · rank #78,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,730
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perro
Nearest frequency peer: perro (+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 « performé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pendulaires
pendulaires
21,276 corpus weight
- pentu
pentu
21,273 corpus weight
- performé
performé
21,271 corpus weight
- perro
perro
21,270 corpus weight
- Perrotin
Perrotin
21,269 corpus weight
- PGE
PGE
21,265 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « performé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | performé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « performé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
performé is uncommon French at frequency #78,730 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe performer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for performé in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is performé, spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-M-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe performer.
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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