perruches
\pɛ.ʁyʃ\
The verdict
“perruches” is uncommon French (frequency #68,539 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,539
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de perruche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perruches · perruches · French
perruches · rank #68,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,539
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perforés
Nearest frequency peer: perforés (-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 « perruches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- percevez
percevez
31,464 corpus weight
- perforés
perforés
31,463 corpus weight
- perruches
perruches
31,462 corpus weight
- perçants
perçants
31,461 corpus weight
- pharynx
pharynx
31,460 corpus weight
- phra
phra
31,459 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perruches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perruches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.ʁyʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perruches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perruches is uncommon French at frequency #68,539 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ.ʁyʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de perruche.".
No misspelling variants are generated for perruches in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is perruches, spelled P-E-R-R-U-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de perruche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perruches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette perruche est la plus grande et la plus fréquente des perruches introduites en Europe.
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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