Which to use
“permanent” and “permanente” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,219
- “permanent” frequency rank
- #15,718
- “permanente” frequency rank
- 22937
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | permanent | permanente |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | bleibend, immer während, ständig, ununterbrochen | Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs permanent |
Where the eye mixes permanent and permanente
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. permanent runs 9 letters (CVCCVCVCC) against permanente's 10 (CVCCVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Why the eye confuses permanent with permanente
A purely visual mix-up. permanent ([pɛʁmaˈnɛnt]) and permanente ([pɛʁmaˈnɛntə]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “permanent” sits inside “permanente”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22937, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
permanent is recorded at frequency rank #7,219, classified as anadj, pronounced [pɛʁmaˈnɛnt]. permanente is at rank #15,718, tagged as anadj, pronounced [pɛʁmaˈnɛntə].
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 22937, this pair ranks #1,867,808 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of permanent vs permanente
Shared letters: aemnprt. Private to "permanent": -. Private to "permanente": -.
"permanent" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCC · "permanente" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- permanent ← eprmanent · pemranent · peramnent · permaennt · permanennt · permanentt · permanetn · permannent
- permanente ← eprmanente · pemranente · peramnente · permaennte · permanenet · permanennte · permanentte · permanetne
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "permanent" for "permanente" ever safe?
In ordinary German text, does "permanent" or "permanente" show up more?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "permanent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "permanente" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,867,808 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "permanent" and "permanente" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "permanente vs permanenter". 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 #1,867,808 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.