perle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,719
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
perle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Globule ordinairement d’un blanc argentin, à reflets irisés, qui se forme dans certaines coquilles par une extravasation de la nacre. Pronounced \pɛʁl\. It ranks #9,719 in French word frequency. Often confused with pré and pire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁl\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,719 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for perle, with forms such as "eprle", "pelre", and "perel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pré", "pire", "pure", 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 perle, spelled P-E-R-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Globule ordinairement d’un blanc argentin, à reflets irisés, qui se forme dans certaines coquilles par une extravasation de la nacre.
- 2Chose qui a l'éclat de la nacre.
- 3Chose qui a la forme ronde de la perle ; goutte d’un liquide, de rosée.
- 4Chose qui a la forme ronde de la perle ; goutte d’un liquide, de rosée.
- 5Chose qui a la forme ronde de la perle ; goutte d’un liquide, de rosée.
- 6Symbole de la perfection ; ce qu’il y a de mieux dans son genre.
- 7Comble ; summum.
- 8Erreur particulièrement amusante commise par quelqu’un à l’oral ou à l’écrit, rapportée comme une citation.
- 9Synonyme de plécoptère.
- 10Granulat de charbon compris entre 5 et 10 millimètres.
- 11Degré de cuisson du sucre, qui est alors qualifié de « perlé ».
- 12Caractère de 5 pt.
- 13Pet, flatulence.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprle,pelre,perel,perlle,perrle,pperle,prele
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for perle
Misspelling Variants of "perle"
Frequency rank: #9,719 in French
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