perpète
\pɛʁ.pɛt\
The verdict
“perpète” is uncommon French (frequency #88,986 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,986
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perpétuité ; longue durée ; éternité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perpete · perpète · French
perpète · rank #88,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,986
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paysagères
Nearest frequency peer: paysagères (-3 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 « perpète »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parallélépi…
parallélépipède
11,021 corpus weight
- paresseuses
paresseuses
11,020 corpus weight
- paysagères
paysagères
11,018 corpus weight
- perpète
perpète
11,015 corpus weight
- phonographi…
phonographique
11,012 corpus weight
- pignouf
pignouf
11,008 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perpète » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perpète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perpète » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perpète is uncommon French at frequency #88,986 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.pɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for perpète, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is perpète, spelled P-E-R-P-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Perpétuité ; longue durée ; éternité.
- 2Peine de prison à perpétuité.
- 3Grande distance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perpète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Et quant aux électeurs, ajouta carrément le compagnon Brunet, faudrait qu'ils restent des gourdiflots à perpète pour songer à nous envoyer à la Chambre.
— On va quand même pas poireauter là jusqu’à perpète.
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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