persane

/\pɛʁ.san\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#45,224

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

persane is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femelle d’une race de chat, originaire d’Iran puis d’Angleterre, à poil long (angora), au nez aplati et à queue courte. Pronounced \pɛʁ.san\. Often confused with perse and pesant.

Key facts for persane
PropertyValue
Headwordpersane
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.san\
Letters7
Frequency rank#45,224
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of persane in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for persane is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.san\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,224 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Femelle d’une race de chat, originaire d’Iran puis d’Angleterre, à poil long (angora), au nez aplati et à queue courte.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for persane, with forms such as "eprsane", "perasne", and "perrsane". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "perse", "pesant", "Person", 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 persane, spelled P-E-R-S-A-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femelle d’une race de chat, originaire d’Iran puis d’Angleterre, à poil long (angora), au nez aplati et à queue courte.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eprsane,perasne,perrsane,persaen,persanne,persnae,perssane,pesrane,ppersane,presane

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for persane

Misspelling Variants of "persane"

eprsane7perasne7perrsane8persaen7persanne8persnae7perssane8pesrane7
Misspelling Variants of "persane"

Frequency rank: #45,224 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "persane"?
"persane" is spelled P-E-R-S-A-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.san\.
What does "persane" mean?
As a noun, "persane" means: Femelle d’une race de chat, originaire d’Iran puis d’Angleterre, à poil long (angora), au nez aplati et à queue courte.
What words are commonly confused with "persane"?
"persane" is commonly confused with "perse", "pesant", "Person". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "persane"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "persane" is \pɛʁ.san\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "persane" come from?
"persane" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.