Perrotin
\pɛ.ʁɔ.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“Perrotin” is uncommon French (frequency #78,732 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,732
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant du Perray-en-Yvelines, commune française située dans le département des Yvelines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perrotin · Perrotin · French
Perrotin · rank #78,732 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,732
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perro
Nearest frequency peer: perro (-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 « Perrotin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pentu
pentu
21,273 corpus weight
- performé
performé
21,271 corpus weight
- perro
perro
21,270 corpus weight
- Perrotin
Perrotin
21,269 corpus weight
- PGE
PGE
21,265 corpus weight
- Phalsbourg
Phalsbourg
21,264 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Perrotin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Perrotin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.ʁɔ.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Perrotin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Perrotin is uncommon French at frequency #78,732 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ.ʁɔ.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitant du Perray-en-Yvelines, commune française située dans le département des Yvelines.".
Perrotin has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Perrotin, spelled P-E-R-R-O-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Habitant du Perray-en-Yvelines, commune française située dans le département des Yvelines.
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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