persécuter
\pɛʁ.se.ky.te\
The verdict
“persécuter” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,598. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,598
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inquiéter, tourmenter sans relâche par des voies injustes, par des poursuites violentes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-persecuter · persécuter · French
persécuter · rank #43,598 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,598
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perpendiculai…
Nearest frequency peer: perpendiculairement (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « persécuter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- permanences
permanences
56,405 corpus weight
- perpendicul…
perpendiculairement
56,404 corpus weight
- persécuter
persécuter
56,403 corpus weight
- pianistes
pianistes
56,402 corpus weight
- pig
pig
56,401 corpus weight
- pilleurs
pilleurs
56,400 corpus weight
What this shows « persécuter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | persécuter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.se.ky.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #43,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « persécuter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around persécuter (IPA \pɛʁ.se.ky.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,598 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for persécuter, with forms such as "eprsécuter", "perrsécuter", and "perscéuter". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "persécutés", "percuter", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 persécuter, spelled P-E-R-S-É-C-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Inquiéter, tourmenter sans relâche par des voies injustes, par des poursuites violentes.
- 2Importuner, presser avec indiscrétion, se rendre incommode.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how persécuter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Romains, bien plus sages que les Grecs, n'ont jamais persécuté aucun philosophe pour ses opinions.
Si encore on le persécutait, il se sentirait vivre ; mais on l’accueille par un sourire et non par une injure, ce qui est pis ; et promptement il se rend compte de l’inanité de ses démarches, du néant de ses efforts et il se décourage !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprsécuter
- perrsécuter
- perscéuter
- persecuter
- perssécuter
- perséccuter
- perséctuer
- persécuetr
- persécuterr
- persécutre
- persécutter
- perséucter
- peréscuter
- pesrécuter
- ppersécuter
- presécuter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of persécuter - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).