permuter
\pɛʁ.my.te\
The verdict
“permuter” is uncommon French (frequency #84,158 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,158
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Modifier l’ordre naturel ou habituel d’un ensemble en intervertissant deux de ses éléments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-permuter · permuter · French
permuter · rank #84,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,158
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH persistera
Nearest frequency peer: persistera (+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 « permuter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- performent
performent
15,846 corpus weight
- perhaps
perhaps
15,845 corpus weight
- permuter
permuter
15,843 corpus weight
- persistera
persistera
15,842 corpus weight
- persistes
persistes
15,841 corpus weight
- pesantes
pesantes
15,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « permuter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | permuter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.my.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « permuter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
permuter is uncommon French at frequency #84,158 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.my.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for permuter in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is permuter, spelled P-E-R-M-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Modifier l’ordre naturel ou habituel d’un ensemble en intervertissant deux de ses éléments.
- 2Échanger un emploi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how permuter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On sait que permuter deux équations d’un même système linéaire […] ne change pas sa solution.
Huit jours avant la capitulation de Paris il venait de permuter avec un camarade et d’entrer dans la cavalerie.
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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