Perrette
\pɛ.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“Perrette” is uncommon French (frequency #92,037 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,037
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de Pierrette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perrette · Perrette · French
Perrette · rank #92,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,037
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perme
Nearest frequency peer: perme (-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 « Perrette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- percera
percera
7,967 corpus weight
- perforant
perforant
7,966 corpus weight
- perme
perme
7,965 corpus weight
- Perrette
Perrette
7,964 corpus weight
- pesanteurs
pesanteurs
7,962 corpus weight
- phalanstère
phalanstère
7,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Perrette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Perrette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Perrette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Perrette is uncommon French at frequency #92,037 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pɛ.ʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de Pierrette.".
Perrette doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Perrette, spelled P-E-R-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de Pierrette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Perrette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Perrette, va-t’en dire au medecin que je le prie de venir jusques icy, voir ma femme qui est bien malade.
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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