permissif
\pɛʁ.mi.sif\
The verdict
“permissif” is uncommon French (frequency #93,085 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,085
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a tendance à tolérer sans punir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-permissif · permissif · French
permissif · rank #93,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,085
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perlimpinpin
Nearest frequency peer: perlimpinpin (-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 « permissif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peinant
peinant
6,919 corpus weight
- peindra
peindra
6,918 corpus weight
- perlimpinpin
perlimpinpin
6,917 corpus weight
- permissif
permissif
6,916 corpus weight
- persuadant
persuadant
6,915 corpus weight
- Petrova
Petrova
6,914 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « permissif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | permissif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.mi.sif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « permissif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
permissif is uncommon French at frequency #93,085 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛʁ.mi.sif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a tendance à tolérer sans punir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for permissif in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is permissif, spelled P-E-R-M-I-S-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui a tendance à tolérer sans punir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how permissif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est bien notre chance, à nous, élevés au temps des interdits, c'est aussi la raison de nos faibles réticences que d'avoir été les derniers-nés de la société de rigueur et en même temps les premiers permissifs !
Observez ce que vous vous dites et notez sur un carnet vos pensées. Amusez-vous à les classer en soulageantes, permissives, anticipatoires.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).