perniciosité
\pɛʁ.ni.sjɔ.zi.te\
The verdict
“perniciosité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère pernicieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perniciosite · perniciosité · French
perniciosité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | perniciosité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ni.sjɔ.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
perniciosité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.ni.sjɔ.zi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for perniciosité, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is perniciosité, spelled P-E-R-N-I-C-I-O-S-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère pernicieux.
- 2Nocivité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perniciosité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l’on doit reconnaître que les hommes politiques et les hauts fonctionaires sont, dans leur très grande majorité , foncièrement honnêtes, ils sont menacés en permanence par la perniciosité des ors de la République.
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.