persistes
\pɛʁ.sist\
The verdict
“persistes” is uncommon French (frequency #84,160 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,160
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de persister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-persistes · persistes · French
persistes · rank #84,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,160
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH persistera
Nearest frequency peer: persistera (-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 « persistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- permuter
permuter
15,843 corpus weight
- persistera
persistera
15,842 corpus weight
- persistes
persistes
15,841 corpus weight
- pesantes
pesantes
15,840 corpus weight
- Pessah
Pessah
15,839 corpus weight
- pestiféré
pestiféré
15,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « persistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « persistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
persistes is uncommon French at frequency #84,160 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.sist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for persistes in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is persistes, spelled P-E-R-S-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de persister.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de persister.
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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