permien
\pɛʁ.mjɛ̃\
The verdict
“permien” is uncommon French (frequency #60,269 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,269
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne la couche géologique située à la partie supérieure des terrains primaires, nommée le Permien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-permien · permien · French
permien · rank #60,269 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,269
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pergola
Nearest frequency peer: pergola (-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 « permien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pentium
Pentium
39,735 corpus weight
- perfidie
perfidie
39,734 corpus weight
- pergola
pergola
39,733 corpus weight
- permien
permien
39,732 corpus weight
- PERT
PERT
39,731 corpus weight
- Pescara
Pescara
39,730 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « permien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | permien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.mjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « permien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
permien is uncommon French at frequency #60,269 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛʁ.mjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for permien, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is permien, spelled P-E-R-M-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne la couche géologique située à la partie supérieure des terrains primaires, nommée le Permien.
- 2Relatif à la ville de Perm en Russie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how permien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans notre édition, les grès werféniens reposent directement et sans métamorphisme soit sur les roches éruptives et métamorphiques du Culm (Ecromagny), soit, de Lantenot au Rocheret, sur les terrains permiens.
Les langues permiennes sont une branche de la famille des langues finno-ougriennes et comprend le komi et l’oudmourte.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).