perpétuel
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,510
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
perpétuel is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui ne cesse pas ; qui dure toujours. Pronounced \pɛʁ.pe.tɥɛl\. Often confused with perpétuer and perpétuent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perpétuel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.pe.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perpétuel is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.pe.tɥɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,510 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for perpétuel, with forms such as "eprpétuel", "peprétuel", and "perpetuel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "perpétuer", "perpétuent", "perpétuelle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is perpétuel, spelled P-E-R-P-É-T-U-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui ne cesse pas ; qui dure toujours.
- 2Qualifie les neiges qui ne fondent jamais.
- 3Qualifie des plantes dites aussi remontantes, qui fleurissent, fructifient pendant toute la bonne saison.
- 4Qui dure toute la vie d’un homme.
- 5Qualifie certaines charges, certaines dignités dont on est pourvu pour toute la vie, à la différence de celles qu’on ne possède que pour un temps limité.
- 6Qui est continuel.
- 7Qui est fréquent, habituel.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprpétuel,peprétuel,perpetuel,perppétuel,perptéuel,perpéteul,perpéttuel,perpétuell,perpétule,perpéutel,perrpétuel,peréptuel,pperpétuel,prepétuel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for perpétuel
Misspelling Variants of "perpétuel"
Frequency rank: #17,510 in French
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