perle rare
\pɛʁ.l‿ə ʁaʁ\
The verdict
“perle rare” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chose ou personne exceptionnelle mais normalement difficile à dénicher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perle-rare · perle rare · French
perle rare · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perle rare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.l‿ə ʁaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
perle rare is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.l‿ə ʁaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chose ou personne exceptionnelle mais normalement difficile à dénicher.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for perle rare in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is perle rare, spelled P-E-R-L-E- -R-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Chose ou personne exceptionnelle mais normalement difficile à dénicher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perle rare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Manicamp. – Je vous devais, mon cher, la perle rare, Moi qui vous ai procuré le plongeon ; Ma fille doit être la perle rare Qui dédommage à l’instant du plongeon.
Il y a une grande ironie : on cherche la perle rare et on tombe sur quelqu’un de banal.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.