perhaps
\pɚˈhæps\
The verdict
“perhaps” is uncommon French (frequency #84,156 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,156
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peut-être.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perhaps · perhaps · French
perhaps · rank #84,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,156
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH performent
Nearest frequency peer: performent (-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 « perhaps »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peptide
peptide
15,848 corpus weight
- perc
perc
15,847 corpus weight
- performent
performent
15,846 corpus weight
- perhaps
perhaps
15,845 corpus weight
- permuter
permuter
15,843 corpus weight
- persistera
persistera
15,842 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perhaps » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perhaps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pɚˈhæps\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perhaps » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perhaps is uncommon French at frequency #84,156 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \pɚˈhæps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peut-être.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for perhaps, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is perhaps, spelled P-E-R-H-A-P-S.
Definition
- 1Peut-être.
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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