pertes

\pɛʁt\

/\pɛʁt\/ noun

The verdict

“pertes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,485
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de perte.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pertes · pertes · French

pertes · rank #3,485 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,485
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH paysage

Nearest frequency peer: paysage (-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 « pertes »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « pertes » 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).

pertes vs près
50% similar
pertes vs pète
50% similar
pertes vs pets
67% similar

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

Key facts for pertes
PropertyValue
Headwordpertes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,485
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pertes »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).pertesse 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 « paysage » (#3,484), « pleurer » (#3,487), « paquet » (#3,482). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pertes » est au #3,485. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around pertes (IPA \pɛʁt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,485 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pertes, with forms such as "eprtes", "perets", and "perrtes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "près", "pète", "pets", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 pertes, spelled P-E-R-T-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de perte.
  2. 2
    Victimes humaines d’un conflit, d’une guerre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les traductions les plus habiles ne contourneront jamais l’écueil de ces pertes et ajouts nocifs, et leur lecteur francophone ne sera pas aidé en permanence par le réseau de la dialectique spontanée du langage, comme c’est le cas plus qu’ailleurs dans un livre qui donne la parole à la conscience naturelle (laquelle s’exprime toujours dans une langue « nat…
  2. Les pertes furent innombrables au cours de la campagne de Russie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eprtes
  • perets
  • perrtes
  • pertess
  • pertse
  • perttes
  • petres
  • ppertes
  • pretes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pertes - 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.

eprtes2perets2perrtes1pertess1pertse2perttes1petres2ppertes1
Edit distance from "pertes"

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 "pertes"?
"pertes" is spelled P-E-R-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁt\.
What does "pertes" mean?
As a noun, "pertes" means: Pluriel de perte.
What words are commonly confused with "pertes"?
"pertes" is commonly confused with "près", "pète", "pets". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pertes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pertes" is \pɛʁt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pertes" come from?
"pertes" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list