perrière
\pɛ.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“perrière” is uncommon French (frequency #81,433 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,433
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au Moyen-Âge, machine de guerre qui lançait des pierres, des traits, des feux grégeois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perriere · perrière · French
perrière · rank #81,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,433
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH percutent
Nearest frequency peer: percutent (-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 « perrière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pav
pav
18,573 corpus weight
- pegi
pegi
18,571 corpus weight
- percutent
percutent
18,569 corpus weight
- perrière
perrière
18,568 corpus weight
- Philippon
Philippon
18,566 corpus weight
- pimpante
pimpante
18,563 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perrière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perrière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perrière is uncommon French at frequency #81,433 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ.ʁjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for perrière in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is perrière, spelled P-E-R-R-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Au Moyen-Âge, machine de guerre qui lançait des pierres, des traits, des feux grégeois.
- 2Carrière, en Anjou, et, dans certaines provinces.
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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