permittivité
\pɛʁ.mi.ti.vi.te\
The verdict
“permittivité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En électromagnétisme, grandeur quantifiant la réponse des matériaux diélectriques à l’application d’un champ électrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-permittivite · permittivité · French
permittivité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | permittivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.mi.ti.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
permittivité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.mi.ti.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En électromagnétisme, grandeur quantifiant la réponse des matériaux diélectriques à l’application d’un champ électrique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for permittivité, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 permittivité, spelled P-E-R-M-I-T-T-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1En électromagnétisme, grandeur quantifiant la réponse des matériaux diélectriques à l’application d’un champ électrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how permittivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La permittivité de l’abdomen est légèrement plus élevée chez les mâles que chez les femelles.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.