Perret
\pe.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“Perret” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,099. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,099
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perret · Perret · French
Perret · rank #19,099 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,099
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH permise
Nearest frequency peer: permise (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Perret »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perfectionn…
perfectionnement
80,905 corpus weight
- perfectionn…
perfectionner
80,904 corpus weight
- permise
permise
80,903 corpus weight
- Perret
Perret
80,902 corpus weight
- pharaon
pharaon
80,901 corpus weight
- pharma
pharma
80,900 corpus weight
What this shows « Perret » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Perret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Perret »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Perret (IPA \pe.ʁɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,099 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Perret, with forms such as "eprret", "perert", and "perrett". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "perte", "Perry", "perse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Perret, spelled P-E-R-R-E-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Perret appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gilles Perret a réuni Lætitia Dosch, Pierre Deladonchamps, Grégory Montel et Vincent Deniard pour un grand pied de nez à la morosité, avec cette histoire d’ouvriers d’une usine de Haute-Savoie qui se font passer pour des financiers, afin de racheter leur entreprise promise à un fonds d’investissement.
Réputée pour faire les fesses roses, chantée par Pierre Perret dans de truculents couplets, elle est aussi une incontournable alliée healthy, tout comme la roquette, salade médicinale par excellence, mais également connue depuis l’Antiquité pour « amouvoir le désir amoureux ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprret
- perert
- perrett
- pperret
- preret
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Perret - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).