perplexe
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,714
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
perplexe is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est dans une grande incertitude, dans une irrésolution pénible sur ce qu’il doit faire ou penser. Pronounced \pɛʁ.plɛks\. Often confused with peuplée and perplexité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perplexe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.plɛks\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perplexe is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.plɛks\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,714 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for perplexe, with forms such as "eprplexe", "peprlexe", and "perlpexe". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "peuplée", "perplexité", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is perplexe, spelled P-E-R-P-L-E-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans une grande incertitude, dans une irrésolution pénible sur ce qu’il doit faire ou penser.
- 2Ce qui cause de la perplexité ou de l’irrésolution.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprplexe,peprlexe,perlpexe,perpelxe,perpleex,perplexxe,perpllexe,perplxee,perpplexe,perrplexe,pperplexe,preplexe
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Misspelling Variants of "perplexe"
Frequency rank: #15,714 in French
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