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“permanente” and “permanenten” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,718
- “permanente” frequency rank
- #19,667
- “permanenten” frequency rank
- 35385
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | permanente | permanenten |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs permanent | Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs permanent |
Where the eye mixes permanente and permanenten
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. permanente runs 10 letters (CVCCVCVCCV) against permanenten's 11 (CVCCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: permanente vs permanenten
A purely visual mix-up. permanente ([pɛʁmaˈnɛntə]) and permanenten ([pɛʁmaˈnɛntn̩]) 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) - “permanente” sits inside “permanenten”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35385, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
permanente is recorded at frequency rank #15,718, classified as anadj, pronounced [pɛʁmaˈnɛntə]. permanenten is at rank #19,667, tagged as anadj, pronounced [pɛʁmaˈnɛntn̩].
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 35385, this pair ranks #1,641,255 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of permanente vs permanenten
Shared letters: aemnprt. Private to "permanente": -. Private to "permanenten": -.
"permanente" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCV · "permanenten" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- permanente ← eprmanente · pemranente · peramnente · permaennte · permanenet · permanennte · permanentte · permanetne
- permanenten ← eprmanenten · pemranenten · peramnenten · permaennten · permanenetn · permanennten · permanentenn · permanentne
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "permanente" for "permanenten" ever safe?
Which is more common, "permanente" or "permanenten"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "permanente" and "permanenten" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "permanente" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "permanenten" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,641,255 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "permanente" and "permanenten" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "permanenten 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 #1,641,255 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.