peuchère
\pø.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“peuchère” is uncommon French (frequency #99,475 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,475
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expression provençale et languedocienne utilisée pour marquer la compassion, la pitié, parfois la commisération.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peuchere · peuchère · French
peuchère · rank #99,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,475
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pesce
Nearest frequency peer: pesce (-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 « peuchère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- performative
performative
530 corpus weight
- pesce
pesce
527 corpus weight
- peuchère
peuchère
526 corpus weight
- phylactère
phylactère
524 corpus weight
- pilotable
pilotable
523 corpus weight
- pimente
pimente
522 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « peuchère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peuchère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \pø.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peuchère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peuchère is uncommon French at frequency #99,475 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \pø.ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Expression provençale et languedocienne utilisée pour marquer la compassion, la pitié, parfois la commisération.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for peuchère, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is peuchère, spelled P-E-U-C-H-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Expression provençale et languedocienne utilisée pour marquer la compassion, la pitié, parfois la commisération.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peuchère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un beau soir, on entendit une sorte de coup de canon. C’était la moitié de la stalactite, peuchère, qui venait de s’effondrer sur le macadam de la terrasse !
Peuchère Pétugue ! Peuchère Pétugue ! Lili, va vite le chercher ! Peuchère Pétugue !
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).