Perm
\pɛʁm\
The verdict
“Perm” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,397. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,397
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de la Russie européenne, située au pied des monts Oural.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perm · Perm · French
Perm · rank #33,397 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,397
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pendent
Nearest frequency peer: pendent (-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 « Perm »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paulette
paulette
66,607 corpus weight
- payement
payement
66,606 corpus weight
- pendent
pendent
66,605 corpus weight
- Perm
Perm
66,604 corpus weight
- perroquets
perroquets
66,603 corpus weight
- placenta
placenta
66,601 corpus weight
What this shows « Perm » 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 | Perm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Perm »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Perm (IPA \pɛʁm\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,397 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville de la Russie européenne, située au pied des monts Oural.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Perm, with forms such as "eprm", "pemr", and "permm". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Pr", "PM", "peu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Perm, spelled P-E-R-M.
Definition
- 1Ville de la Russie européenne, située au pied des monts Oural.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Perm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lendemain, 18 juillet, le Caucase s’arrêtait au débarcadère de Perm, dernière station qu’il desservît sur la Kama. Ce gouvernement, dont Perm est la capitale, est l’un des plus vastes de l’empire russe, et, franchissant les monts Ourals, il empiète sur le territoire de la Sibérie. Carrières de marbre, salines, gisements de platine et d’or, mines de cha…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprm
- pemr
- permm
- perrm
- pperm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Perm - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).