perte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,418
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
perte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Privation de quelque chose de précieux, d’agréable, de commode, qu’on avait. Pronounced \pɛʁt\. It ranks #1,418 in French word frequency. Often confused with pré and pet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁt\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,418 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for perte, with forms such as "eprte", "peret", and "perrte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pré", "pet", "peut", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is perte, spelled P-E-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Privation de quelque chose de précieux, d’agréable, de commode, qu’on avait.
- 2Don des mises après échec.
- 3Disparition de personnes dont on est privé par la mort.
- 4Les hommes tués ou blessés dans une bataille.
- 5Ce qui s’échappe ; ce qui se perd.
- 6Lieu où un cours d’eau disparaît en sous-sol.
- 7Hémorragie ; menstrues ou règles abondantes.
- 8Dommage, diminution de bien, de profit.
- 9Dépense d'argent, volontaire ou non.
- 10Déficit.
- 11Ruine, en ce qui regarde le gouvernement, la fortune, la réputation, les mœurs, etc.
- 12Mauvais succès, d’un événement désavantageux dans une affaire, dans une entreprise, etc.
- 13Mauvais usage ou l’emploi inutile que l’on fait d’une chose.
- 14État de totale perdition ou de destruction.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprte,peret,perrte,pertte,petre,pperte,prete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for perte
Misspelling Variants of "perte"
Frequency rank: #1,418 in French
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