persistaient
\pɛʁ.sis.tɛ\
The verdict
“persistaient” is uncommon French (frequency #90,020 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,020
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de persister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-persistaient · persistaient · French
persistaient · rank #90,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,020
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perlée
Nearest frequency peer: perlée (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « persistaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perdiez
perdiez
9,984 corpus weight
- perfume
perfume
9,983 corpus weight
- perlée
perlée
9,982 corpus weight
- persistaient
persistaient
9,981 corpus weight
- perturbante
perturbante
9,980 corpus weight
- Petry
Petry
9,979 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « persistaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persistaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #90,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « persistaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
persistaient is uncommon French at frequency #90,020 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.sis.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de persister.".
No misspelling variants are generated for persistaient in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is persistaient, spelled P-E-R-S-I-S-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de persister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how persistaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir revu toute sa vie défiler devant ses yeux, il en était là de ses réflexions, bien calé derrière ce rocher, à l’abri des tirs sporadiques qui persistaient depuis la crête.
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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