Périgord

\pɛ.ʁi.ɡɔʁ\

/\pɛ.ʁi.ɡɔʁ\/ name

The verdict

“Périgord” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,433. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,433
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien comté de France, correspondant à peu près au département actuel de la Dordogne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-perigord · Périgord · French

Périgord · rank #21,433 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #21,433
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH ptet

Nearest frequency peer: ptet (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Périgord »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Périgord » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Périgord vs period
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Périgord
PropertyValue
HeadwordPérigord
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\pɛ.ʁi.ɡɔʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#21,433
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Périgord »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Périgordse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ptet » (#21,432), « quantitative » (#21,434), « radieux » (#21,436). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Périgord » est au #21,433. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around Périgord (IPA \pɛ.ʁi.ɡɔʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,433 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Périgord, with forms such as "perigord", "ppérigord", and "préigord". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "period", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Périgord, spelled P-É-R-I-G-O-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancien comté de France, correspondant à peu près au département actuel de la Dordogne.
  2. 2
    Région touristique de France correspondant grosso modo au territoire du précédent.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Périgord appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans les Gaules, les forges étaient en grand nombre il y a 2,000 ans : Strabon cite celles des Pétrocoriens dans le Périgord et celles des Bituriges aux environs de Bordeaux.
  2. Que diriez-vous d’une belle tranche de jambon de Bayonne avec une salade de tomates de Marmande et des asperges du Blayais, puis un magret des Landes et, pour finir, une barquette de fraises du Périgord ?

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • perigord
  • ppérigord
  • préigord
  • péirgord
  • pérgiord
  • périggord
  • périgodr
  • périgordd
  • périgorrd
  • périgrod
  • périogrd
  • pérrigord
  • éprigord

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Périgord - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

perigord1ppérigord1préigord2péirgord2pérgiord2périggord1périgodr2périgordd1
Edit distance from "Périgord"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Périgord"?
"Périgord" is spelled P-É-R-I-G-O-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛ.ʁi.ɡɔʁ\.
What does "Périgord" mean?
As a proper noun, "Périgord" means: Ancien comté de France, correspondant à peu près au département actuel de la Dordogne.
What words are commonly confused with "Périgord"?
"Périgord" is commonly confused with "period". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Périgord"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Périgord" is \pɛ.ʁi.ɡɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Périgord" come from?
"Périgord" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Périgord", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list