perspicaces
\pɛʁ.spi.kas\
The verdict
“perspicaces” is uncommon French (frequency #79,606 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,606
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de perspicace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perspicaces · perspicaces · French
perspicaces · rank #79,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,606
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH personality
Nearest frequency peer: personality (-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 « perspicaces »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perform
perform
20,398 corpus weight
- perfusions
perfusions
20,397 corpus weight
- personality
personality
20,396 corpus weight
- perspicaces
perspicaces
20,395 corpus weight
- persécuteurs
persécuteurs
20,394 corpus weight
- Perthes
Perthes
20,393 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perspicaces » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perspicaces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.spi.kas\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perspicaces » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perspicaces is uncommon French at frequency #79,606 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛʁ.spi.kas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de perspicace.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for perspicaces in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is perspicaces, spelled P-E-R-S-P-I-C-A-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de perspicace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perspicaces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis six mois, l’abbé Goujet observait Laurence avec le génie particulier aux prêtres, qui sont les gens les plus perspicaces ; et, sans savoir que cette jeune fille de vingt-trois ans pensait à renverser Bonaparte au moment où ses faibles mains détortillaient un brandebourg défait de son amazone, il la supposait cependant agitée d’un grand dessein.
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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