pérorer
\pe.ʁɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“pérorer” is uncommon French (frequency #96,280 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,280
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parler, discourir longuement et avec une sorte d’emphase.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perorer · pérorer · French
pérorer · rank #96,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,280
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pétantes
Nearest frequency peer: pétantes (+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 « pérorer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- putter
putter
3,725 corpus weight
- PVD
PVD
3,724 corpus weight
- pédologique
pédologique
3,723 corpus weight
- pérorer
pérorer
3,721 corpus weight
- pétantes
pétantes
3,720 corpus weight
- querellent
querellent
3,718 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pérorer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pérorer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.ʁɔ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pérorer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pérorer is uncommon French at frequency #96,280 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pe.ʁɔ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Parler, discourir longuement et avec une sorte d’emphase.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pérorer, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pérorer, spelled P-É-R-O-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Parler, discourir longuement et avec une sorte d’emphase.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pérorer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Madame de Commercy est peut-être plus jolie encore que madame d’Hocquincourt, mais c’est une folle, une sorte de madame de Staël, qui pérore toujours pour Charles X, comme celle de Genève contre Napoléon. Je commandais à Genève, et cette folle nous gênait beaucoup.
Il pérore admirablement ; mais enfin il pérore devant ses juges, qu’il écrase de sa hauteur d’âme, et devant la mort, qu’il trompe en s'enchantant de ses propres discours. Il meurt d’une mort arrangée, tourné de ce côté qu’il quitte, non de l’autre où il va.
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); 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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