perme
\pɛʁm\
The verdict
“perme” is uncommon French (frequency #92,036 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,036
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Congé accordé à un militaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perme · perme · French
perme · rank #92,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,036
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perforant
Nearest frequency peer: perforant (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « perme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pentecôtiste
pentecôtiste
7,968 corpus weight
- percera
percera
7,967 corpus weight
- perforant
perforant
7,966 corpus weight
- perme
perme
7,965 corpus weight
- Perrette
Perrette
7,964 corpus weight
- pesanteurs
pesanteurs
7,962 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « perme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « perme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
perme is uncommon French at frequency #92,036 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Congé accordé à un militaire.".
perme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is perme, spelled P-E-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Congé accordé à un militaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Bonne perme, les gars !
Vous croyez qu’on n'aura pas de permes du tout, lieutenant ?
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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