pero
The verdict
“pero” is uncommon French (frequency #51,653 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,653
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pero · pero · French
pero · rank #51,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,653
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perquisitionné
Nearest frequency peer: perquisitionné (+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 « pero »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parthes
parthes
48,352 corpus weight
- paternalisme
paternalisme
48,351 corpus weight
- pavane
pavane
48,350 corpus weight
- pero
pero
48,348 corpus weight
- perquisitio…
perquisitionné
48,347 corpus weight
- Peyre
Peyre
48,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pero » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pero |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pero » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pero is uncommon French at frequency #51,653 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mais.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pero, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pero, spelled P-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1Mais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pero appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pero leumens Dona grand joi qui be mante Los aizimens
Synonyms
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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