purchase
\ˈpɜː.t͡ʃəs\
The verdict
“purchase” is uncommon French (frequency #78,769 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,769
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Achat (acte ou objet), acquisition.
| 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) |
Where “purchase” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
purchase is uncommon French at frequency #78,769 among 248,534 “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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Using “purchase”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-U-R-C-H-A-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈpɜː.t͡ʃəs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.