perruques
\pɛ.ʁyk\
The verdict
“perruques” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,177. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,177
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de perruque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perruques · perruques · French
perruques · rank #31,177 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,177
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH percutant
Nearest frequency peer: percutant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « perruques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- penchent
penchent
68,827 corpus weight
- perceuse
perceuse
68,826 corpus weight
- percutant
percutant
68,825 corpus weight
- perruques
perruques
68,824 corpus weight
- persister
persister
68,823 corpus weight
- persuade
persuade
68,822 corpus weight
What this shows « perruques » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | perruques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.ʁyk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perruques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around perruques (IPA \pɛ.ʁyk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,177 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de perruque.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for perruques, with forms such as "eprruques", "perrquues", and "perruqeus". 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", "perroquet", "perroquets", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is perruques, spelled P-E-R-R-U-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de perruque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perruques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le parlement de Paris, les parlements de province étaient chargés de cette immense perruque à laquelle le président Diderot ne pouvait s’accoutumer ; et M. de Brosses lui-même qui se riait si bien dans sa correspondance des vastissimes perruques carrées sous lesquelles étaient cachés le doge de Gênes et ses sénateurs, s’était vu forcé de s’en affubler com…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprruques
- perrquues
- perruqeus
- perruqques
- perruquess
- perruquse
- perruuqes
- peruques
- perurques
- pperruques
- preruques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perruques - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).