persons
\ˈpɝ.sənz\
The verdict
“persons” is uncommon French (frequency #61,777 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,777
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnes
Corpus desk
Index FR-persons · persons · French
persons · rank #61,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,777
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH permutations
Nearest frequency peer: permutations (-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 « persons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perforer
perforer
38,227 corpus weight
- perla
perla
38,226 corpus weight
- permutations
permutations
38,225 corpus weight
- persons
persons
38,224 corpus weight
- phonétiquem…
phonétiquement
38,222 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographiées
38,221 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « persons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɝ.sənz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « persons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
persons is uncommon French at frequency #61,777 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpɝ.sənz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
persons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is persons, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Personnes
- 2Pluriel de person.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).