pertinent
\pɛʁ.ti.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“pertinent” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,457. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,457
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est tel qu’il convient, qui est approprié, qui est en rapport avec le sujet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pertinent · pertinent · French
pertinent · rank #11,457 · 14 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,457
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Perry
Nearest frequency peer: Perry (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pertinent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- oubliée
oubliée
88,547 corpus weight
- oubliés
oubliés
88,546 corpus weight
- Perry
Perry
88,545 corpus weight
- pertinent
pertinent
88,544 corpus weight
- Porsche
Porsche
88,543 corpus weight
- portaient
portaient
88,542 corpus weight
What this shows « pertinent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | pertinent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ti.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pertinent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around pertinent (IPA \pɛʁ.ti.nɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,457 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for pertinent, with forms such as "eprtinent", "peritnent", and "perrtinent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "pertinente", "pertinents", "pertinentes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 pertinent, spelled P-E-R-T-I-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est tel qu’il convient, qui est approprié, qui est en rapport avec le sujet.
- 2Qui se rapporte à la question, qui appartient au fond de la cause.
- 3Qui a de l’à-propos, de la répartie, de l’esprit ; qui est vif.
- 4Qui peut se transformer en élément dangereux pour la santé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pertinent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Raisons pertinentes.
Excuses pertinentes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprtinent
- peritnent
- perrtinent
- pertiennt
- pertinennt
- pertinentt
- pertinetn
- pertinnent
- pertinnet
- pertnient
- perttinent
- petrinent
- ppertinent
- pretinent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pertinent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pertinent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).