performeur
\pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mœʁ\
The verdict
“performeur” is uncommon French (frequency #76,888 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,888
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui exécute une performance artistique, en direct, devant un public.
Corpus desk
Index FR-performeur · performeur · French
performeur · rank #76,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,888
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perdions
Nearest frequency peer: perdions (-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 « performeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- penda
penda
23,115 corpus weight
- perdions
perdions
23,114 corpus weight
- performeur
performeur
23,113 corpus weight
- peshmergas
peshmergas
23,112 corpus weight
- pharisien
pharisien
23,111 corpus weight
- physicienne
physicienne
23,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « performeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | performeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « performeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
performeur is uncommon French at frequency #76,888 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for performeur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is performeur, spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-M-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui exécute une performance artistique, en direct, devant un public.
- 2Personne qui exécute une performance sportive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how performeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Noah Lyles est devenu le 4e meilleur performeur de l'histoire sur 200m lors du meeting de Lausanne.
Synonyms
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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