périr
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,204
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
périr is aFrenchverb. It means: Prendre fin ; cesser d’être. Pronounced \pe.ʁiʁ\. Often confused with pri and pir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | périr |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for périr is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.ʁiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,204 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for périr, with forms such as "perir", "ppérir", and "préir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pri", "pir", "prix", 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 périr, spelled P-É-R-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prendre fin ; cesser d’être.
- 2Avoir une fin malheureuse ou violente.
- 3Être détruit, en parlant des choses.
- 4Être ruiné ou anéanti.
- 5Tomber en forclusion, en prescription, périmer.
- 6Se tuer, se suicider.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: perir,ppérir,préir,péirr,périrr,pérrir,éprir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for périr
Misspelling Variants of "périr"
Frequency rank: #27,204 in French
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