perpétrer
\pɛʁ.pet.ʁe\
The verdict
“perpétrer” is uncommon French (frequency #54,150 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,150
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commettre. Note d’usage : Il n’est usité qu’en parlant de crimes, de délits, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perpetrer · perpétrer · French
perpétrer · rank #54,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,150
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Perrache
Nearest frequency peer: Perrache (+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 « perpétrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- passing
passing
45,855 corpus weight
- peanuts
peanuts
45,853 corpus weight
- perpétrer
perpétrer
45,851 corpus weight
- Perrache
Perrache
45,850 corpus weight
- persécute
persécute
45,849 corpus weight
- persécutée
persécutée
45,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perpétrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perpétrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.pet.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perpétrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perpétrer is uncommon French at frequency #54,150 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.pet.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commettre. Note d’usage : Il n’est usité qu’en parlant de crimes, de délits, etc.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for perpétrer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is perpétrer, spelled P-E-R-P-É-T-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Commettre. Note d’usage : Il n’est usité qu’en parlant de crimes, de délits, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perpétrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ignorais […] quelles abominations pouvaient s’y perpétrer et jusqu’où se dégradaient les sentiments les plus moches sacrés.
En été, c'était encore entre chien et loup. N'importe où. Là, où il se trouvait... […]. Il repérait ses proies à leur odeur, à leur tenue, à leur forme. Mais, jamais, il ne perpétrait deux fois consécutivement le même crime.
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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