perspicacité

\pɛʁ.spi.ka.si.te\

/\pɛʁ.spi.ka.si.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“perspicacité” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,416. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#40,416
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
19
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pénétration d’esprit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-perspicacite · perspicacité · French

perspicacité · rank #40,416 · 19 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #40,416
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 19 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH perpétuent

Nearest frequency peer: perpétuent (-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 « perspicacité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « perspicacité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

perspicacité vs perspicace
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for perspicacité
PropertyValue
Headwordperspicacité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.spi.ka.si.te\
Letters12
Frequency rank#40,416
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perspicacité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.perspicacitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « perpétuent » (#40,415), « perversité » (#40,417), « Pegasus » (#40,414). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « perspicacité » est au #40,416. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 19 spelling variants around perspicacité (IPA \pɛʁ.spi.ka.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,416 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pénétration d’esprit.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for perspicacité, with forms such as "eprspicacité", "perpsicacité", and "perrspicacité". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "perspicace", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is perspicacité, spelled P-E-R-S-P-I-C-A-C-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pénétration d’esprit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how perspicacité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On comptait sans un incident, que certainement aucune perspicacité humaine ne pouvait prévoir.
  2. J’ai rendu hommage à votre perspicacité tout à l’heure et je reconnais encore que vous avez fort bien pronostiqué en nous annonçant que le capitaine Brocq avait une maîtresse.

This word in other languages

perspicacity(English)perspicacia(Español)Scharfsinn(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eprspicacité
  • perpsicacité
  • perrspicacité
  • persipcacité
  • perspciacité
  • perspiaccité
  • perspicaccité
  • perspicacite
  • perspicacitté
  • perspicaciét
  • perspicactié
  • perspicaicté
  • perspiccacité
  • perspiccaité
  • persppicacité
  • persspicacité
  • pesrpicacité
  • pperspicacité
  • prespicacité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perspicacité - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

eprspicacité2perpsicacité2perrspicacité1persipcacité2perspciacité2perspiaccité2perspicaccité1perspicacite1
Edit distance from "perspicacité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "perspicacité"?
"perspicacité" is spelled P-E-R-S-P-I-C-A-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.spi.ka.si.te\.
What does "perspicacité" mean?
As a noun, "perspicacité" means: Pénétration d’esprit.
What words are commonly confused with "perspicacité"?
"perspicacité" is commonly confused with "perspicace". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "perspicacité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "perspicacité" is \pɛʁ.spi.ka.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "perspicacité" come from?
"perspicacité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "perspicacité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).

ostentatoires19 variantsquantitatives19 variantsrajeunissement19 variantsinutilisables19 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list