pervertir
\pɛʁ.vɛʁ.tiʁ\
The verdict
“pervertir” is uncommon French (frequency #57,497 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,497
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire changer de bien en mal, corrompre avec intention.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pervertir · pervertir · French
pervertir · rank #57,497 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,497
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pervenche
Nearest frequency peer: pervenche (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pervertir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- permettrons
permettrons
42,507 corpus weight
- pernicieuse
pernicieuse
42,506 corpus weight
- pervenche
pervenche
42,505 corpus weight
- pervertir
pervertir
42,504 corpus weight
- pessoa
pessoa
42,503 corpus weight
- philanthrop…
philanthropes
42,501 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pervertir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pervertir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.vɛʁ.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pervertir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pervertir is uncommon French at frequency #57,497 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.vɛʁ.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pervertir, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pervertir, spelled P-E-R-V-E-R-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Faire changer de bien en mal, corrompre avec intention.
- 2Dénaturer, altérer, changer.
- 3(réfléchi) Devenir pervers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pervertir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les mauvaises compagnies le pervertiront.
Pervertir la jeunesse.
This word in other languages
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.
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