Petrova
The verdict
“Petrova” is uncommon French (frequency #93,087 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,087
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille féminin ukrainien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petrova · Petrova · French
Petrova · rank #93,087 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,087
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH persuadant
Nearest frequency peer: persuadant (-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 « Petrova »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perlimpinpin
perlimpinpin
6,917 corpus weight
- permissif
permissif
6,916 corpus weight
- persuadant
persuadant
6,915 corpus weight
- Petrova
Petrova
6,914 corpus weight
- Pharmaprix
Pharmaprix
6,913 corpus weight
- philistin
philistin
6,912 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Petrova » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Petrova |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Petrova » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Petrova is uncommon French at frequency #93,087 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille féminin ukrainien.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Petrova in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Petrova, spelled P-E-T-R-O-V-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille féminin ukrainien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Petrova appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, si Andrii Dranchuk, le maire de la commune jumelle de La Couronne, Liubov Petrova, maire adjointe déléguée à l’économie, Anatolii Sukharenko, député, et Tetiana Solodka, directrice de la médecine familiale, sont venus jusqu’en Charente, c’est aussi pour comprendre comment fonctionnent les collectivités et les services publics.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).