persil

\pɛʁ.sil\

/\pɛʁ.sil\/ noun

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The verdict

“persil” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,434. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,434
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante potagère aromatique de la famille des apiacées qui ressemble au cerfeuil et qui sert à divers usages pour la cuisine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-persil · persil · French

persil · rank #25,434 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,434
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH perpendiculai…

Nearest frequency peer: perpendiculaire (-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 « persil »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « persil » 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).

persil vs perso
67% similar
persil vs persos
67% similar
persil vs Person
50% similar

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

Key facts for persil
PropertyValue
Headwordpersil
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.sil\
Letters6
Frequency rank#25,434
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « persil »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.persilse 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 « perpendiculaire » (#25,433), « petra » (#25,435), « pendentif » (#25,432). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « persil » est au #25,434. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around persil (IPA \pɛʁ.sil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,434 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plante potagère aromatique de la famille des apiacées qui ressemble au cerfeuil et qui sert à divers usages pour la cuisine.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for persil, with forms such as "eprsil", "perisl", and "perrsil". 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, "perso", "persos", "Person", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is persil, spelled P-E-R-S-I-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plante potagère aromatique de la famille des apiacées qui ressemble au cerfeuil et qui sert à divers usages pour la cuisine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Là, j’ai souri à des femmes inconnues, j’ai entendu siffler le merle prisonnier, j’ai respiré la saine odeur du persil qu’on hache et j’ai vu luire les carottes rouges sous les fontaines.
  2. En Charente-Maritime, deux spécialités locales subliment ce coquillage : la mouclade, avec une sauce au vin blanc, du pineau, du persil, de l’ail et, selon les recettes, du curry et du jaune d’œuf ; et l’éclade - ou églade -, où les moules sont disposées en spirale sur une planche en bois avant d’être recouvertes d’aiguilles de pin auxquelles on met le fe…

This word in other languages

parsley(English)perejil(Español)Petersilie(Deutsch)salsa(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eprsil
  • perisl
  • perrsil
  • persill
  • persli
  • perssil
  • pesril
  • ppersil
  • presil

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of persil - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

eprsil2perisl2perrsil1persill1persli2perssil1pesril2ppersil1
Edit distance from "persil"

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 "persil"?
"persil" is spelled P-E-R-S-I-L. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.sil\.
What does "persil" mean?
As a noun, "persil" means: Plante potagère aromatique de la famille des apiacées qui ressemble au cerfeuil et qui sert à divers usages pour la cuisine.
What words are commonly confused with "persil"?
"persil" is commonly confused with "perso", "persos", "Person". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "persil"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "persil" is \pɛʁ.sil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "persil" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ourson#25,423puerto#25,450racket#25,460mother#25,404

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

pagaille9 variantsoblique9 variantsrampes9 variantsmoqueur9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list