Perrache
\pe.ʁaʃ\
The verdict
“Perrache” is uncommon French (frequency #54,151 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,151
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quartier de Lyon situé au sud de la presqu’île entre le Rhône et la Saône autour de la gare du même nom.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perrache · Perrache · French
Perrache · rank #54,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,151
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perpétrer
Nearest frequency peer: perpétrer (-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 « Perrache »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- physiologis…
physiologiste
45,846 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Perrache » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Perrache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁaʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Perrache » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Perrache is uncommon French at frequency #54,151 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pe.ʁaʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quartier de Lyon situé au sud de la presqu’île entre le Rhône et la Saône autour de la gare du même nom.".
Perrache has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Perrache, spelled P-E-R-R-A-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Quartier de Lyon situé au sud de la presqu’île entre le Rhône et la Saône autour de la gare du même nom.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Perrache appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour le « Lyon-Soir », ç’avait alors été une période de prospérité inespérée : on se ruait sur les crieurs, on assiégeait les kiosques et, devant le vieil hôtel du journal, rue Sala, dans le quartier Perrache, on avait dû organiser des barrages d’agents.
Synonyms
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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