perle rare
\pɛʁ.l‿ə ʁaʁ\
The verdict
“perle rare” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chose ou personne exceptionnelle mais normalement difficile à dénicher.
| 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) |
Where “perle rare” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perle rare is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.l‿ə ʁaʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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.
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Using “perle rare”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-R-L-E- -R-A-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛʁ.l‿ə ʁaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.