permissive
\pɛʁ.mi.siv\
The verdict
“permissive” is uncommon French (frequency #72,608 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,608
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de permissif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-permissive · permissive · French
permissive · rank #72,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,608
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perpétuant
Nearest frequency peer: perpétuant (+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 « permissive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- payeras
payeras
27,399 corpus weight
- percher
percher
27,396 corpus weight
- permissive
permissive
27,393 corpus weight
- perpétuant
perpétuant
27,392 corpus weight
- piaggio
piaggio
27,388 corpus weight
- picolé
picolé
27,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « permissive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | permissive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.mi.siv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « permissive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
permissive is uncommon French at frequency #72,608 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛʁ.mi.siv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de permissif.".
permissive doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is permissive, spelled P-E-R-M-I-S-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de permissif.
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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