Petry
\ˈpeːtʀiː\
The verdict
“Petry” is uncommon French (frequency #90,022 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,022
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petry · Petry · French
Petry · rank #90,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,022
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perturbante
Nearest frequency peer: perturbante (-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 « Petry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perlée
perlée
9,982 corpus weight
- persistaient
persistaient
9,981 corpus weight
- perturbante
perturbante
9,980 corpus weight
- Petry
Petry
9,979 corpus weight
- philologues
philologues
9,978 corpus weight
- phong
phong
9,977 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Petry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Petry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈpeːtʀiː\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Petry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Petry is uncommon French at frequency #90,022 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈpeːtʀiː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Petry has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Petry, spelled P-E-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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