persistait
\pɛʁ.sis.tɛ\
The verdict
“persistait” is uncommon French (frequency #58,156 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,156
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de persister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-persistait · persistait · French
persistait · rank #58,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,156
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH petty
Nearest frequency peer: petty (+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 « persistait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perforée
perforée
41,849 corpus weight
- perpétuels
perpétuels
41,848 corpus weight
- Perreux
Perreux
41,847 corpus weight
- persistait
persistait
41,845 corpus weight
- petty
petty
41,844 corpus weight
- philanthrop…
philanthropiques
41,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « persistait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persistait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « persistait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
persistait is uncommon French at frequency #58,156 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.sis.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de persister.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for persistait in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is persistait, spelled P-E-R-S-I-S-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de persister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how persistait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Capevirade, encore torpide et mal désencotonné, promena son regard, où persistait la brume, sur ses deux compagnons, et marmotta : […]
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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