pérenne
\pe.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“pérenne” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,995. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,995
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dure toujours, qui dure toute l’année.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perenne · pérenne · French
pérenne · rank #22,995 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,995
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pépinière
Nearest frequency peer: pépinière (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pérenne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- préventif
préventif
77,009 corpus weight
- pâtisseries
pâtisseries
77,008 corpus weight
- pépinière
pépinière
77,007 corpus weight
- pérenne
pérenne
77,006 corpus weight
- raffinerie
raffinerie
77,005 corpus weight
- rapportées
rapportées
77,003 corpus weight
What this shows « pérenne » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pérenne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pérenne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pérenne (IPA \pe.ʁɛn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,995 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pérenne, with forms such as "perenne", "ppérenne", and "préenne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "prenne", "prennes", "Perrine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pérenne, spelled P-É-R-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui dure toujours, qui dure toute l’année.
- 2Qualifie une plante pouvant vivre plusieurs années.
- 3Qualifie une source d’eau ou un cours d’eau qui n’a jamais tari.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pérenne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une telle démarche est déjà importante dans le cas des cultures annuelles, mais elle l'est encore davantage avec les cultures pérennes, plantées pour durer des dizaines d'années au sein d'écosystèmes souvent complexes et fragiles.
Odeur d’enfance et odeur de pauvreté, de tristesse aussi, comme si les particules noires de combustion illustraient les malheurs, petits ou grands, dommageables ou bénins, pérennes ou passagers, qui se déposent sur les vies humaines et les souillent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perenne
- ppérenne
- préenne
- péernne
- pérene
- pérenen
- pérnene
- pérrenne
- éprenne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pérenne - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).