perquise
\pɛʁ.kiz\
The verdict
“perquise” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perquisition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perquise · perquise · French
perquise · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perquise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.kiz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
perquise is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.kiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Perquisition.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for perquise, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 perquise, spelled P-E-R-Q-U-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Perquisition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perquise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Motif de cette perquise civilisée, passée jusqu’ici inaperçue : une commission rogatoire de la juge Milca Michel-Gabriel, chargée d’instruire une plainte avec constitution de partie civile déposée il y a… deux ans et demi.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.