purgée
\pyʁ.ʒe\
The verdict
“purgée” is uncommon French (frequency #67,036 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,036
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de purger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-purgee · purgée · French
purgée · rank #67,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,036
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH punissent
Nearest frequency peer: punissent (-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 « purgée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Puigdemont
Puigdemont
32,968 corpus weight
- pun
pun
32,967 corpus weight
- punissent
punissent
32,966 corpus weight
- purgée
purgée
32,965 corpus weight
- pélagie
pélagie
32,963 corpus weight
- périples
périples
32,962 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « purgée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purgée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pyʁ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « purgée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
purgée is uncommon French at frequency #67,036 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pyʁ.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de purger.".
purgée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is purgée, spelled P-U-R-G-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de purger.
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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