péricliter
\pe.ʁi.kli.te\
The verdict
“péricliter” is uncommon French (frequency #81,468 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,468
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être en péril, aller à la ruine, aller vers son déclin, se dégrader physiquement, baisser, décliner, dépérir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pericliter · péricliter · French
péricliter · rank #81,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,468
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pénétrations
Nearest frequency peer: pénétrations (-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 « péricliter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prêterait
prêterait
18,538 corpus weight
- pékinois
pékinois
18,535 corpus weight
- pénétrations
pénétrations
18,534 corpus weight
- péricliter
péricliter
18,533 corpus weight
- pétrodollars
pétrodollars
18,532 corpus weight
- pêchées
pêchées
18,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « péricliter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péricliter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.kli.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « péricliter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
péricliter is uncommon French at frequency #81,468 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pe.ʁi.kli.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être en péril, aller à la ruine, aller vers son déclin, se dégrader physiquement, baisser, décliner, dépérir.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for péricliter, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 péricliter, spelled P-É-R-I-C-L-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être en péril, aller à la ruine, aller vers son déclin, se dégrader physiquement, baisser, décliner, dépérir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how péricliter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La ramie jaune et la ramie rouge sont acclimatées en Indochine. Pourtant elles poussent moins vigoureusement ; elles ne périclitent pas, mais leurs tiges sont moins belles.
Son affaire du Bosphore commençait à péricliter.
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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