pertuis

\pɛʁ.tɥi\

/\pɛʁ.tɥi\/ noun

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The verdict

“pertuis” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,627. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,627
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouverture ; trou.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pertuis · pertuis · French

pertuis · rank #44,627 · 10 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,627
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH personnificat…

Nearest frequency peer: personnification (-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 « pertuis »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « pertuis » 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).

pertuis vs portais
71% similar
pertuis vs permis
71% similar
pertuis vs partis
71% similar

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

Key facts for pertuis
PropertyValue
Headwordpertuis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.tɥi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#44,627
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pertuis »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « personnification » (#44,626), « phéniciens » (#44,628), « perplexité » (#44,625). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pertuis » est au #44,627. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around pertuis (IPA \pɛʁ.tɥi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,627 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pertuis, with forms such as "eprtuis", "perrtuis", and "pertius". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "portais", "permis", "partis", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pertuis, spelled P-E-R-T-U-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ouverture ; trou.
  2. 2
    Trou, ouverture ; en particulier, ouverture pratiquée à une digue pour le passage des bateaux ou celle par laquelle l’eau passe d’une écluse dans un coursier pour faire mouvoir une roue.
  3. 3
    Détroit, passage resserré entre une île et la terre ferme, ou entre deux îles. — (IHO SP-23, 4ᵉ édition (en préparation), Nomenclature des espaces maritimes au 01.01.2004, Commission nationale de toponymie [de France] (CNT), Service hydrographique et océanographique de la Marine (SHOM), au nom de l’OHI (Organisation hydrographique internationale), 2004)
  4. 4
    Étranglement d’un fleuve.
  5. 5
    Bouche.
  6. 6
    Petit trou dans l’oreille souvent présent au niveau de l’hélix.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je te salue o vermeillette fante, Qui vivement entre ces flancs reluis : Je te salue o bienheuré pertuis, Qui rens ma vie heureusement contante.
  2. Quand on écarta la chemise du patient, chacun put voir au côté gauche de sa poitrine et à la hauteur du cœur un petit pertuis rond du diamètre d’un tuyau de plume et d’où le sang vermeil s’écoulait goutte à goutte.

Synonyms

fistule pré-hélicéenne

This word in other languages

spillway(English)agujero(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eprtuis
  • perrtuis
  • pertius
  • perttuis
  • pertuiss
  • pertusi
  • perutis
  • petruis
  • ppertuis
  • pretuis

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pertuis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

eprtuis2perrtuis1pertius2perttuis1pertuiss1pertusi2perutis2petruis2
Edit distance from "pertuis"

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 "pertuis"?
"pertuis" is spelled P-E-R-T-U-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.tɥi\.
What does "pertuis" mean?
As a noun, "pertuis" means: Ouverture ; trou.
What words are commonly confused with "pertuis"?
"pertuis" is commonly confused with "portais", "permis", "partis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pertuis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pertuis" is \pɛʁ.tɥi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pertuis" come from?
"pertuis" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

outside#44,613pygmées#44,655périnée#44,658ralliés#44,670

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

ravaler10 variantsMaurizio10 variantslevante10 variantsréveilla10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list