Petrova

name

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Petrova » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Petrova
PropertyValue
HeadwordPetrova
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#93,087
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Petrova » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Petrovatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « persuadant » (#93,086), « Pharmaprix » (#93,088), « permissif » (#93,085). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Petrova » est au #93,087. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Nom de famille féminin ukrainien.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Petrova"?
"Petrova" is spelled P-E-T-R-O-V-A.
What does "Petrova" mean?
As a proper noun, "Petrova" means: Nom de famille féminin ukrainien.
What language does "Petrova" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list