périssable
\pe.ʁi.sabl\
The verdict
“périssable” is uncommon French (frequency #63,271 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,271
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne dure pas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perissable · périssable · French
périssable · rank #63,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,271
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pyrotechnique
Nearest frequency peer: pyrotechnique (-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 « périssable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préférentie…
préférentiellement
36,734 corpus weight
- préviendra
préviendra
36,733 corpus weight
- pygmée
pygmée
36,732 corpus weight
- pyrotechniq…
pyrotechnique
36,731 corpus weight
- périssable
périssable
36,730 corpus weight
- péritonite
péritonite
36,729 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « périssable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | périssable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.sabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « périssable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
périssable is uncommon French at frequency #63,271 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pe.ʁi.sabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ne dure pas.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for périssable, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is périssable, spelled P-É-R-I-S-S-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne dure pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how périssable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les gens seront invités à faire des dons en argent ou à déposer des denrées alimentaires non périssables aux points de chute désignés.
Car les produits de la pêche, très rapidement périssables, devaient parcourir de longues distances en très peu de temps pour pouvoir être consommés dans l’Halil Rud.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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