perdezvsPérezWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: perdez is a verb, Pérez is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“perdez” is a verb and “Pérez” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#13,031
“perdez” frequency rank
#27,924
“Pérez” frequency rank
40955
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature perdez Pérez
Definition Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de perdre. Nom de famille.

Letter map: perdez vs Pérez

Shared letters muted; letters that set perdez and Pérez apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. perdez runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against Pérez's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
perdez
5 ch
Pérez

Part-of-speech tell for perdez / Pérez

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: perdez is averb and Pérezaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40955, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

perdez is recorded at frequency rank #13,031, classified as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.de\. Pérez is at rank #27,924, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 40955, this pair ranks #236,694 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of perdez vs Pérez

Shared letters: eprz. Private to "perdez": d. Private to "Pérez": é.

"perdez" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "Pérez" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • perdezeprdez · pedrez · perddez · perdezz · perdze · peredz · perrdez · pperdez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "perdez" and "Pérez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "perdez" is a verb and "Pérez" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "perdez" or "Pérez" show up more?
"perdez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,031 in our French list, against #27,924 for "Pérez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "perdez" vs "Pérez" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "perdez" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Pérez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #236,694 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "perdez" and "Pérez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Pérez vs prep". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #236,694 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list