pervenche
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,496
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
pervenche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom vernaculaire donné principalement aux plantes rampantes du genre Vinca (Apocynacées), aux fleurs bleues ou blanches et aux feuilles persistantes, communes dans les sous-bois d’Europe. Pronounced \pɛʁ.vɑ̃ʃ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pervenche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.vɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for pervenche is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.vɑ̃ʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #57,496 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pervenche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 pervenche, spelled P-E-R-V-E-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire donné principalement aux plantes rampantes du genre Vinca (Apocynacées), aux fleurs bleues ou blanches et aux feuilles persistantes, communes dans les sous-bois d’Europe.
- 2Fleur que porte cette plante, de couleur bleue, plus rarement blanche.
- 3Désigne aussi la pervenche de Madagascar (Catharanthus roseus) et quelques espèces proches cultivées pour l’ornement ou la pharmacopée.
- 4Fonctionnaire de police chargée de vérifier le stationnement des voitures, contractuelle.
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Frequency rank: #57,496 in French
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