pourcents
\puʁ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“pourcents” is uncommon French (frequency #67,787 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,787
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pourcent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourcents · pourcents · French
pourcents · rank #67,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,787
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pouponnière
Nearest frequency peer: pouponnière (-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 « pourcents »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pondérés
pondérés
32,218 corpus weight
- Portia
Portia
32,216 corpus weight
- pouponnière
pouponnière
32,215 corpus weight
- pourcents
pourcents
32,214 corpus weight
- PRL
PRL
32,212 corpus weight
- procédural
procédural
32,210 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pourcents » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pourcents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \puʁ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pourcents » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pourcents is uncommon French at frequency #67,787 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \puʁ.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pourcent.".
pourcents has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pourcents, spelled P-O-U-R-C-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pourcent.
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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