permansion

noun

"permansion" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“permansion” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Permanence.

Corpus desk

Index EN-permansion · permansion · English

permansion · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for permansion
PropertyValue
Headwordpermansion
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “permansion” in English

permansionsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

permansion is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Permanence.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for permansion, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin permansio, from the participle stem of permanere. The correct English form is permansion, spelled P-E-R-M-A-N-S-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Permanence.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how permansion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] from female unto male, from male to female again, and so in a circle to both, without a permansion in either.
  2. And can we think that such material and mortal, that such inunderstanding souls, should by God and Nature be furnished with bodies of so long permansion, and that our spirits should joined unto flesh so subject of corruption, so suddenly dissolvible, were it not that they lived but once […]

Etymology

From Latin permansio, from the participle stem of permanere.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "permansion"?
"permansion" is spelled P-E-R-M-A-N-S-I-O-N.
What does "permansion" mean?
As a noun, "permansion" means: Permanence.
What is the origin of the word "permansion"?
From Latin permansio, from the participle stem of permanere. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list