permanence

/\pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,597

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

permanence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Durée constante de quelque chose, état de ce qui est permanent. Pronounced \pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃s\. It ranks #4,597 in French word frequency. Often confused with permanent and permanente.

Key facts for permanence
PropertyValue
Headwordpermanence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃s\
Letters10
Frequency rank#4,597
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of permanence in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for permanence is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for permanence, with forms such as "eprmanence", "pemranence", and "peramnence". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "permanent", "permanente", "pertinence", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is permanence, spelled P-E-R-M-A-N-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Durée constante de quelque chose, état de ce qui est permanent.
  2. 2
    État de celui qui reste, qui demeure longtemps dans le même lieu, en parlant des personnes.
  3. 3
    État d'un groupe qui ne se sépare pas, qu’elle reste en séance.
  4. 4
    État d'une personne qui assure la continuité d'un service public durant les congés.
  5. 5
    Principe, admis par les chrétiens, de la présence continuée du corps de Jésus-Christ dans l’eucharistie.
  6. 6
    Local dans lequel se tiennent constamment certaines personnes chargées d’un service public ou privé.
  7. 7
    Temps et lieu d’ouverture au public d’un service.
  8. 8
    Heure sans cours dans l’emploi du temps d’un élève.
  9. 9
    Salle 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.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eprmanence,pemranence,peramnence,permaennce,permanecne,permanencce,permanenec,permanennce,permannece,permannence,permmanence,permnaence,perrmanence,ppermanence,premanence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for permanence

Misspelling Variants of "permanence"

eprmanence10pemranence10peramnence10permaennce10permanecne10permanencce11permanenec10permanennce11
Misspelling Variants of "permanence"

Frequency rank: #4,597 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "permanence"?
"permanence" is spelled P-E-R-M-A-N-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃s\.
What does "permanence" mean?
As a noun, "permanence" means: Durée constante de quelque chose, état de ce qui est permanent.
What words are commonly confused with "permanence"?
"permanence" is commonly confused with "permanent", "permanente", "pertinence". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "permanence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "permanence" is \pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "permanence" come from?
"permanence" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.