péroné
\pe.ʁɔ.ne\
The verdict
“péroné” is uncommon French (frequency #50,454 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,454
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fibula ; os long et grêle qui longe la face externe du tibia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perone · péroné · French
péroné · rank #50,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,454
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pénalisant
Nearest frequency peer: pénalisant (-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 « péroné »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Publicis
Publicis
49,550 corpus weight
- punchlines
punchlines
49,549 corpus weight
- pénalisant
pénalisant
49,548 corpus weight
- péroné
péroné
49,547 corpus weight
- pétale
pétale
49,546 corpus weight
- pétée
pétée
49,545 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « péroné » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péroné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « péroné » en français
Rare enough to double-check
péroné is uncommon French at frequency #50,454 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ʁɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fibula ; os long et grêle qui longe la face externe du tibia.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for péroné in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is péroné, spelled P-É-R-O-N-É.
Definition
- 1Fibula ; os long et grêle qui longe la face externe du tibia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how péroné appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Acteur du Grand Chelem de 2022, Gabin Villière, victime d’une fracture du péroné, a déclaré forfait pour le Tournoi, a dévoilé L’Équipe, jeudi.
Il dénuda le tibia et le péroné, introduisit entre eux la compresse à trois chefs, pour les maintenir. Puis, d’un trait de scie unique, il les abattit.
Synonyms
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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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