persistance
\pɛʁ.sis.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“persistance” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #18,018 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #18,018
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est persistant ; action de persister.
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 | persistance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sis.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #18,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “persistance” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for persistance is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.sis.tɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,018 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for persistance, with forms such as "eprsistance", "perisstance", and "perrsistance". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "persistant", "persistante", "persistants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 persistance, spelled P-E-R-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est persistant ; action de persister.
- 2Mécanisme consistant à sauvegarder les données d’un programme au-delà de sa période d’exécution, afin que le programme puisse les réutiliser lors d’une future exécution.
- 3Propriété d’un nombre entier de générer un nouveau (donc différent) nombre entier après une transformation mathématique donnée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprsistance,perisstance,perrsistance,persisatnce,persisstance,persistacne,persistancce,persistanec,persistannce,persistnace,persisttance,persitsance,perssistance,perssitance,pesristance,ppersistance,presistance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of persistance - 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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Using “persistance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-R-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛʁ.sis.tɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “persistant” - see the side-by-side comparison. persistance vs persistant
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.