permanent
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,059
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
permanent is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est stable, immuable, qui dure sans changer, qui dure constamment. Pronounced \pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃\. It ranks #5,059 in French word frequency. Often confused with pertinent and permirent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | permanent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for permanent is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,059 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for permanent, with forms such as "eprmanent", "pemranent", and "peramnent". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "pertinent", "permirent", "permanente", 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 permanent, spelled P-E-R-M-A-N-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est stable, immuable, qui dure sans changer, qui dure constamment.
- 2Qui est à demeure ; par opposition à temporaire ou passager.
- 3Qui est constamment en fonctions, en organisation.
- 4Se dit d’un gaz qui conserve l’état aériforme à toutes les températures et sous toutes les pressions.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprmanent,pemranent,peramnent,permaennt,permanennt,permanentt,permanetn,permannent,permannet,permmanent,permnaent,perrmanent,ppermanent,premanent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for permanent
Misspelling Variants of "permanent"
Frequency rank: #5,059 in French
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