perrier
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,467
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
perrier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Morceau de fer emmanché au bout d'une perche, pour ouvrir les fourneaux quand on veut faire couler le métal en fusion. Pronounced \pe.ʁje\. Often confused with prier and perrin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perrier is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.ʁje\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,467 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for perrier, with forms such as "eprrier", "perier", and "perirer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "prier", "perrin", "poirier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is perrier, spelled P-E-R-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Morceau de fer emmanché au bout d'une perche, pour ouvrir les fourneaux quand on veut faire couler le métal en fusion.
- 2Ouvrier des ardoisières d'Anjou, perreyeur, ardoisier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprrier,perier,perirer,perreir,perrierr,perrire,pperrier,prerier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for perrier
Misspelling Variants of "perrier"
Frequency rank: #26,467 in French
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