périmètre

/\pe.ʁi.mɛtʁ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,990

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

périmètre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Contour d’une figure plane. Pronounced \pe.ʁi.mɛtʁ\. It ranks #6,990 in French word frequency. Often confused with permette and perpétré.

Key facts for périmètre
PropertyValue
Headwordpérimètre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pe.ʁi.mɛtʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,990
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of périmètre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for périmètre is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.ʁi.mɛtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,990 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for périmètre, with forms such as "perimetre", "ppérimètre", and "préimètre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "permette", "perpétré", "permettre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is périmètre, spelled P-É-R-I-M-È-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Contour d’une figure plane.
  2. 2
    Longueur de ce contour.
  3. 3
    Surface environnante.
  4. 4
    Champ d'action autorisé d'une personne ou d'un projet.
  5. 5
    Appareil utilisé pour étudier le champ visuel.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: perimetre,ppérimètre,préimètre,péirmètre,périmmètre,périmtère,périmèrte,périmèter,périmètrre,périmèttre,périèmtre,pérmiètre,pérrimètre,éprimètre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for périmètre

Misspelling Variants of "périmètre"

perimetre9ppérimètre10préimètre9péirmètre9périmmètre10périmtère9périmèrte9périmèter9
Misspelling Variants of "périmètre"

Frequency rank: #6,990 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "périmètre"?
"périmètre" is spelled P-É-R-I-M-È-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pe.ʁi.mɛtʁ\.
What does "périmètre" mean?
As a noun, "périmètre" means: Contour d’une figure plane.
What words are commonly confused with "périmètre"?
"périmètre" is commonly confused with "permette", "perpétré", "permettre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "périmètre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "périmètre" is \pe.ʁi.mɛtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "périmètre" come from?
"périmètre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.