Perséphone
\pɛʁ.se.fɔn\
The verdict
“Perséphone” is uncommon French (frequency #70,099 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,099
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fille de Zeus et de Déméter, épouse d'Hadès, déesse du renouveau de la végétation au printemps, qui est aussi nommée Coré, et Proserpine par les Romains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-persephone · Perséphone · French
Perséphone · rank #70,099 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,099
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perdes
Nearest frequency peer: perdes (-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 « Perséphone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perchiste
perchiste
29,905 corpus weight
- percutants
percutants
29,904 corpus weight
- perdes
perdes
29,903 corpus weight
- Perséphone
Perséphone
29,902 corpus weight
- pesants
pesants
29,900 corpus weight
- peureuse
peureuse
29,899 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Perséphone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Perséphone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.se.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Perséphone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Perséphone is uncommon French at frequency #70,099 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pɛʁ.se.fɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Perséphone in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Perséphone, spelled P-E-R-S-É-P-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Fille de Zeus et de Déméter, épouse d'Hadès, déesse du renouveau de la végétation au printemps, qui est aussi nommée Coré, et Proserpine par les Romains.
- 2(399) Perséphone, internationalement (399) Persephone, planète mineure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Perséphone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il dépêcha son fidèle Hermès sous la terre, afin de convaincre cette fois Hadès de délivrer Perséphone.
This word in other languages
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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