permis de séjour
\pɛʁ.mi də se.ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“permis de séjour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Autorisation administrative de séjourner temporairement dans un pays, délivrée à un étranger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-permis-de-sejour · permis de séjour · French
permis de séjour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | permis de séjour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.mi də se.ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “permis de séjour” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
permis de séjour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.mi də se.ʒuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Autorisation administrative de séjourner temporairement dans un pays, délivrée à un étranger.".
permis de séjour doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 permis de séjour, spelled P-E-R-M-I-S- -D-E- -S-É-J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Autorisation administrative de séjourner temporairement dans un pays, délivrée à un étranger.
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