Périgord
\pɛ.ʁi.ɡɔʁ\
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
- promos
promos
78,572 corpus weight
- ptet
ptet
78,569 corpus weight
- Périgord
Périgord
78,568 corpus weight
- quantitative
quantitative
78,567 corpus weight
- radieux
radieux
78,565 corpus weight
- randonnées
randonnées
78,564 corpus weight
What this shows « Périgord » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Périgord |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.ʁi.ɡɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Périgord »
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
- 1Ancien comté de France, correspondant à peu près au département actuel de la Dordogne.
- 2Région touristique de France correspondant grosso modo au territoire du précédent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Périgord appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).