persécute
\pɛʁ.se.kyt\
The verdict
“persécute” is uncommon French (frequency #54,152 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,152
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de persécuter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-persecute · persécute · French
persécute · rank #54,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,152
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Perrache
Nearest frequency peer: Perrache (-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 « persécute »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peanuts
peanuts
45,853 corpus weight
- perpétrer
perpétrer
45,851 corpus weight
- Perrache
Perrache
45,850 corpus weight
- persécute
persécute
45,849 corpus weight
- persécutée
persécutée
45,848 corpus weight
- physiologis…
physiologiste
45,846 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « persécute » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persécute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.se.kyt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « persécute » en français
Rare enough to double-check
persécute is uncommon French at frequency #54,152 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.se.kyt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for persécute, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is persécute, spelled P-E-R-S-É-C-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de persécuter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de persécuter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de persécuter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de persécuter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de persécuter.
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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