persécution
\pɛʁ.se.ky.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“persécution” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,535. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,535
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vexation, poursuite injuste et violente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-persecution · persécution · French
persécution · rank #14,535 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,535
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peace
Nearest frequency peer: peace (-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 « persécution »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- partageant
partageant
85,469 corpus weight
- peace
peace
85,467 corpus weight
- persécution
persécution
85,466 corpus weight
- plaza
plaza
85,465 corpus weight
- poupées
poupées
85,464 corpus weight
- president
president
85,463 corpus weight
What this shows « persécution » 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 | persécution |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.se.ky.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « persécution »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around persécution (IPA \pɛʁ.se.ky.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,535 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for persécution, with forms such as "eprsécution", "perrsécution", and "perscéution". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "persécutions", "perfection", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is persécution, spelled P-E-R-S-É-C-U-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Vexation, poursuite injuste et violente.
- 2Importunité continuelle dont on se trouve fatigué.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how persécution appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le parti socialiste allemand tira une force particulière de l'idée catastrophique que ses propagandistes répandaient partout et qui fut prise très au sérieux tant que les persécutions bismarckiennes maintinrent un esprit belliqueux dans les groupes.
J’ai déjà fait voir, dans le premier chapitre, combien la persécution révolutionnaire est disposée à survivre aux jésuites.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprsécution
- perrsécution
- perscéution
- persecution
- perssécution
- perséccution
- perséctuion
- persécuiton
- persécutino
- persécutionn
- persécutoin
- persécuttion
- perséuction
- peréscution
- pesrécution
- ppersécution
- presécution
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of persécution - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).