périples
\pe.ʁipl\
The verdict
“périples” is uncommon French (frequency #67,039 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,039
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de périple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-periples · périples · French
périples · rank #67,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,039
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pélagie
Nearest frequency peer: pélagie (-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 « périples »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- punissent
punissent
32,966 corpus weight
- purgée
purgée
32,965 corpus weight
- pélagie
pélagie
32,963 corpus weight
- périples
périples
32,962 corpus weight
- quercus
quercus
32,959 corpus weight
- quod
quod
32,958 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « périples » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | périples |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁipl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « périples » en français
Rare enough to double-check
périples is uncommon French at frequency #67,039 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ʁipl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de périple.".
périples doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is périples, spelled P-É-R-I-P-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de périple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how périples appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces trois périples, ces trois péripéties qui rappelaient ce qu’Adriel avait lui-même qualifié de « phénomènes de déplacement ».
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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