purchase
\ˈpɜː.t͡ʃəs\
The verdict
“purchase” is uncommon French (frequency #78,769 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,769
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Achat (acte ou objet), acquisition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-purchase · purchase · French
purchase · rank #78,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,769
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pumpkin
Nearest frequency peer: pumpkin (-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 « purchase »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- présidentes
présidentes
21,236 corpus weight
- présure
présure
21,235 corpus weight
- pumpkin
pumpkin
21,233 corpus weight
- purchase
purchase
21,232 corpus weight
- puérils
puérils
21,230 corpus weight
- pyrénéennes
pyrénéennes
21,228 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « purchase » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purchase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɜː.t͡ʃəs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « purchase » en français
Rare enough to double-check
purchase is uncommon French at frequency #78,769 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpɜː.t͡ʃəs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Achat (acte ou objet), acquisition.".
purchase doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is purchase, spelled P-U-R-C-H-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Achat (acte ou objet), acquisition.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).