persévérant

\pɛʁ.se.ve.ʁɑ̃\

/\pɛʁ.se.ve.ʁɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“persévérant” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,454. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,454
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
18
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui persévère, qui ne baisse pas les bras devant les obstacles, qui continue de poursuivre son but.

Corpus desk

Index FR-perseverant · persévérant · French

persévérant · rank #39,454 · 18 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #39,454
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH perpendiculai…

Nearest frequency peer: perpendiculaires (-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 « persévérant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « persévérant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

persévérant vs persévérance
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for persévérant
PropertyValue
Headwordpersévérant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pɛʁ.se.ve.ʁɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#39,454
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « persévérant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.persévérantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « perpendiculaires » (#39,453), « Petr » (#39,455), « PCR » (#39,452). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « persévérant » est au #39,454. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around persévérant (IPA \pɛʁ.se.ve.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,454 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui persévère, qui ne baisse pas les bras devant les obstacles, qui continue de poursuivre son but.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for persévérant, with forms such as "eprsévérant", "perrsévérant", and "perseverant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "persévérance", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is persévérant, spelled P-E-R-S-É-V-É-R-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui persévère, qui ne baisse pas les bras devant les obstacles, qui continue de poursuivre son but.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how persévérant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et ce fut par cette invariable réponse qu’il accueillit toutes les parlementaires juponnées que, patiente et persévérante, sa femme persistait à lui dépêcher d’heure en heure sous des prétextes, semblait-il, de plus en plus urgents.
  2. Une importante leçon de l'expérience hongroise est l'importance de réformes cohérentes et persévérantes pendant plusieurs années.

Synonyms

assidudéterminéopiniâtrerésoluobstinéacharnépatienttenacevolontaire

Antonyms

inconstantfrivole

This word in other languages

perseverant(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eprsévérant
  • perrsévérant
  • perseverant
  • perssévérant
  • persvéérant
  • persévréant
  • persévvérant
  • persévéarnt
  • persévérannt
  • persévérantt
  • persévératn
  • persévérnat
  • persévérrant
  • perséévrant
  • perésvérant
  • pesrévérant
  • ppersévérant
  • presévérant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of persévérant - 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.

eprsévérant2perrsévérant1perseverant2perssévérant1persvéérant2persévréant2persévvérant1persévéarnt2
Edit distance from "persévérant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "persévérant"?
"persévérant" is spelled P-E-R-S-É-V-É-R-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.se.ve.ʁɑ̃\.
What does "persévérant" mean?
As an adjective, "persévérant" means: Qui persévère, qui ne baisse pas les bras devant les obstacles, qui continue de poursuivre son but.
What words are commonly confused with "persévérant"?
"persévérant" is commonly confused with "persévérance". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "persévérant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "persévérant" is \pɛʁ.se.ve.ʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "persévérant" come from?
"persévérant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "persévérant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

parvenaient#39,444parentalité#39,443obstinément#39,427nécessiteux#39,423

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

qualificative18 variantsmétaphorique18 variantsmicrobiologie18 variantssuperficiels18 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list