purgent
\pyʁʒ\
The verdict
“purgent” is uncommon French (frequency #97,321 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,321
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de purger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-purgent · purgent · French
purgent · rank #97,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,321
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puja
Nearest frequency peer: puja (-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 « purgent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prétendais
prétendais
2,684 corpus weight
- puja
puja
2,681 corpus weight
- purgent
purgent
2,680 corpus weight
- puro
puro
2,679 corpus weight
- puéricultri…
puéricultrice
2,678 corpus weight
- Qaraqosh
Qaraqosh
2,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « purgent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purgent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pyʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « purgent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
purgent is uncommon French at frequency #97,321 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pyʁʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for purgent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is purgent, spelled P-U-R-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de purger.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de purger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how purgent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cinq autres moyens pour médéciner les arbres, afin qu’ils produisent fruits qui purgent doucement le corps.
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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