perlimpinpin
\pɛʁ.lɛ̃.pɛ̃.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“perlimpinpin” is uncommon French (frequency #93,084 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,084
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot populaire qui ne s’emploie que dans la locution : poudre de perlimpinpin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perlimpinpin · perlimpinpin · French
perlimpinpin · rank #93,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,084
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peindra
Nearest frequency peer: peindra (-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 « perlimpinpin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peinant
peinant
6,919 corpus weight
- peindra
peindra
6,918 corpus weight
- perlimpinpin
perlimpinpin
6,917 corpus weight
- permissif
permissif
6,916 corpus weight
- persuadant
persuadant
6,915 corpus weight
- Petrova
Petrova
6,914 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perlimpinpin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perlimpinpin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.lɛ̃.pɛ̃.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #93,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perlimpinpin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perlimpinpin is uncommon French at frequency #93,084 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.lɛ̃.pɛ̃.pɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mot populaire qui ne s’emploie que dans la locution : poudre de perlimpinpin.".
perlimpinpin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is perlimpinpin, spelled P-E-R-L-I-M-P-I-N-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Mot populaire qui ne s’emploie que dans la locution : poudre de perlimpinpin.
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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