perreau
\pe.ʁo\
The verdict
“perreau” is uncommon French (frequency #66,988 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,988
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de péreau
Corpus desk
Index FR-perreau · perreau · French
perreau · rank #66,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,988
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perdurera
Nearest frequency peer: perdurera (-2 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 « perreau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pelham
Pelham
33,017 corpus weight
- perdurera
perdurera
33,015 corpus weight
- perreau
perreau
33,013 corpus weight
- phones
phones
33,010 corpus weight
- phytosanita…
phytosanitaire
33,009 corpus weight
- piette
piette
33,008 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perreau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perreau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perreau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perreau is uncommon French at frequency #66,988 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de péreau".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for perreau, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is perreau, spelled P-E-R-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de péreau
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perreau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Perreau : ( Cirier) Sorte de grand chaudron étamé, étroit, rond et profond, dont les ciriers se servent pour faire amollir la cire dont ils font les cierges à la main.
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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