persécuteur
\pɛʁ.se.ky.tœʁ\
The verdict
“persécuteur” is uncommon French (frequency #80,497 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,497
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui persécute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-persecuteur · persécuteur · French
persécuteur · rank #80,497 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,497
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH persistez
Nearest frequency peer: persistez (-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 « persécuteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- percutantes
percutantes
19,507 corpus weight
- perfectionn…
perfectionnées
19,506 corpus weight
- persistez
persistez
19,505 corpus weight
- persécuteur
persécuteur
19,504 corpus weight
- Persépolis
Persépolis
19,503 corpus weight
- peuplaient
peuplaient
19,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « persécuteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persécuteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.se.ky.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « persécuteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
persécuteur is uncommon French at frequency #80,497 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.se.ky.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for persécuteur, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is persécuteur, spelled P-E-R-S-É-C-U-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui persécute.
- 2Homme pressant, incommode, importun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how persécuteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]: peu de temps avant la première Croisade, Alexandre II (1061-1073) déclara que le devoir des chrétiens était de courir sus aux Sarrazins, persécuteurs des fidèles, mais d’épargner les Juifs, gens paisibles et inoffensifs.
À leurs yeux, il était, d’une part, un persécuteur et, d’autre part, un philosophe et un magicien.
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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