persistez
\pɛʁ.sis.te\
The verdict
“persistez” is uncommon French (frequency #80,496 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,496
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de persister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-persistez · persistez · French
persistez · rank #80,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,496
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perfectionnées
Nearest frequency peer: perfectionnées (-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 « persistez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- percussionn…
percussionnistes
19,508 corpus weight
- percutantes
percutantes
19,507 corpus weight
- perfectionn…
perfectionnées
19,506 corpus weight
- persistez
persistez
19,505 corpus weight
- persécuteur
persécuteur
19,504 corpus weight
- Persépolis
Persépolis
19,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « persistez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persistez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sis.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « persistez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
persistez is uncommon French at frequency #80,496 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.sis.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
persistez doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is persistez, spelled P-E-R-S-I-S-T-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de persister.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif 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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