péricarde
\pe.ʁi.kaʁd\
The verdict
“péricarde” is uncommon French (frequency #75,129 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,129
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enveloppe membraneuse dans laquelle est logé le cœur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pericarde · péricarde · French
péricarde · rank #75,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,129
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pénétrée
Nearest frequency peer: pénétrée (-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 « péricarde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pyramid
pyramid
24,877 corpus weight
- pénétrée
pénétrée
24,873 corpus weight
- péricarde
péricarde
24,872 corpus weight
- quantifié
quantifié
24,871 corpus weight
- quoy
quoy
24,868 corpus weight
- ralentissait
ralentissait
24,866 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « péricarde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péricarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.kaʁd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « péricarde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
péricarde is uncommon French at frequency #75,129 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ʁi.kaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enveloppe membraneuse dans laquelle est logé le cœur.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for péricarde, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is péricarde, spelled P-É-R-I-C-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Enveloppe membraneuse dans laquelle est logé le cœur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how péricarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces symptômes correspondent sans doute à des lésions du myocarde ou du péricarde qui ont été constatées en effet quelquefois.
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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