permanence
\pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃s\
The verdict
“permanence” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,597 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,597
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Durée constante de quelque chose, état de ce qui est permanent.
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 | permanence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “permanence” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for permanence is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,597 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for permanence, with forms such as "eprmanence", "pemranence", and "peramnence". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "permanent", "permanente", "pertinence", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 permanence, spelled P-E-R-M-A-N-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Durée constante de quelque chose, état de ce qui est permanent.
- 2État de celui qui reste, qui demeure longtemps dans le même lieu, en parlant des personnes.
- 3État d'un groupe qui ne se sépare pas, qu’elle reste en séance.
- 4État d'une personne qui assure la continuité d'un service public durant les congés.
- 5Principe, admis par les chrétiens, de la présence continuée du corps de Jésus-Christ dans l’eucharistie.
- 6Local dans lequel se tiennent constamment certaines personnes chargées d’un service public ou privé.
- 7Temps et lieu d’ouverture au public d’un service.
- 8Heure sans cours dans l’emploi du temps d’un élève.
- 9Salle de classe spécialement aménagée pour accueillir les élèves lorsqu’ils ont un trou dans leur emploi du temps, lors de l’absence d’un professeur, lors d’une exclusion, lors d’un devoir surveillé ou après les cours en étude ou en retenue.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprmanence,pemranence,peramnence,permaennce,permanecne,permanencce,permanenec,permanennce,permannece,permannence,permmanence,permnaence,perrmanence,ppermanence,premanence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of permanence - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “permanence”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-R-M-A-N-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “permanent” - see the side-by-side comparison. permanence vs permanent
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.