perroquet
\pɛ.ʁɔ.kɛ\
The verdict
“perroquet” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #21,109 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #21,109
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom normalisé donné à deux genres d'oiseaux de la famille des Psittacidés et de l'ordre des psittaciformes, comprenant douze espèces habitant les régions paléotropicales, au plumage souvent coloré,...
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 | perroquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.ʁɔ.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perroquet” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perroquet is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ.ʁɔ.kɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,109 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for perroquet, with forms such as "eprroquet", "peroquet", and "perorquet". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "perruque", "perruques", "perroquets", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is perroquet, spelled P-E-R-R-O-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Nom normalisé donné à deux genres d'oiseaux de la famille des Psittacidés et de l'ordre des psittaciformes, comprenant douze espèces habitant les régions paléotropicales, au plumage souvent coloré, au bec crochu, fortement articulé et puissant, de taille assez robuste, dont l'intelligence dépasse en moyenne celle des autres membres de leur ordre, hautement sociables, et dont les aptitudes supérieures à la communication intragroupe permettent à plusieurs espèces d'imiter la voix humaine (genres Poicephalus et Psittacus).
- 2Nom que l'on donne couramment à tout oiseau de l'ordre des psittaciformes dont la taille dépasse celle d'une perruche (e.g. perruche ondulée), sans égard au taxon précis auquel il appartient.
- 3Personne qui répète sans comprendre.
- 4Absinthe.
- 5Cocktail composé de pastis et de sirop de menthe.
- 6Mât, vergue et voile qui se gréent au-dessus d’un mât de hune.
- 7Portemanteau monté sur trépied.
- 8Potence fixée au dessus d’un lit de malade et à laquelle on laisse pendre une sangle terminé par un triangle, une poignée, destiné à être attrapé par le malade pour l’aider à se relever.
- 9Synonyme de poisson-perroquet ou de poisson-perroquet méditerranéen.
- 10Curvigraphe, instrument servant à tracer des courbes. Pistolet.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprroquet,peroquet,perorquet,perroqeut,perroqquet,perroquett,perroqute,perrouqet,perrqouet,pperroquet,preroquet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perroquet - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “perroquet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-R-R-O-Q-U-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛ.ʁɔ.kɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “perruque” - see the side-by-side comparison. perroquet vs perruque
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.