perfume
\pɛɾˈfu.me\
The verdict
“perfume” is uncommon French (frequency #90,018 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,018
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parfum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perfume · perfume · French
perfume · rank #90,018 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,018
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perdiez
Nearest frequency peer: perdiez (-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 « perfume »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pedes
pedes
9,986 corpus weight
- perdiez
perdiez
9,984 corpus weight
- perfume
perfume
9,983 corpus weight
- perlée
perlée
9,982 corpus weight
- persistaient
persistaient
9,981 corpus weight
- perturbante
perturbante
9,980 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perfume » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perfume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛɾˈfu.me\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perfume » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perfume is uncommon French at frequency #90,018 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛɾˈfu.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Parfum.".
No misspelling variants are generated for perfume in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 perfume, spelled P-E-R-F-U-M-E.
Definition
- 1Parfum.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).