pers
\pɛʁ\
The verdict
“pers” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,512) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,512
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est entre le bleu et le vert (surtout en parlant des yeux).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pers · pers · French
pers · rank #17,512 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,512
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perpétuelle
Nearest frequency peer: perpétuelle (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « pers »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- perpétuel
perpétuel
82,491 corpus weight
- perpétuelle
perpétuelle
82,490 corpus weight
- pers
pers
82,489 corpus weight
- persécutions
persécutions
82,488 corpus weight
- perturbe
perturbe
82,487 corpus weight
- pessimiste
pessimiste
82,486 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « pers » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pers »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pers is neighbouring look-alikes ("PS", "Pr", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \pɛʁ\. Frequency #17,512 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Qui est entre le bleu et le vert (surtout en parlant des yeux).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pers, with forms such as "eprs", "perrs", and "pesr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pr", "peu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 pers, spelled P-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Qui est entre le bleu et le vert (surtout en parlant des yeux).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il eût été malaisé de se prononcer, à voir sa chevelure en désordre, sa face machurée, sa barbe en broussailles, ses sourcils épais comme deux brosses à crins rougeâtres, ses yeux pers, entre le vert et le bleu, et dont le larmier humide était circonscrit du cercle sénile.
J’obéis aux vouloirs d’une fille aux yeux pers. En regardant ses yeux, je pense aux mers profondes Dont l’abîme inconnu désespère les sondes : Si je veux lire au fond de ses yeux, je m’y perds.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprs
- perrs
- pesr
- ppers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pers - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).