perverse

Name: perverse, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\pɛʁ.vɛʁs\

/\pɛʁ.vɛʁs\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“perverse” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,290
frequency rank, French: 6,826
“P” headwords: 12
tracked misspellings: 4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Antonyme de convertie, personne qui a quitté la religion considérée comme vraie, apostate.

Corpus desk

Index FR-perverse · perverse · French

perverse · rank #28,290 · 12 variants · 4 confusables

FREQ-MID #28,290
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
VAR-MID 12 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,826
PHOTO-FINISH personal

Nearest frequency peer: personal (-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.

perdition

71,714
Perrot

71,713
personal

71,712
perverse

71,711
pistons

71,710
pittoresques

71,709

What this shows « perverse » 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).

perverse vs perverses

89% similar

perverse vs perversité

70% similar

perverse vs pervers

88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for perverse
Property	Value
Headword	perverse
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\pɛʁ.vɛʁs\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#28,290
Misspellings tracked	12
Confusable pairs	4
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perverse »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).perversese place ici:

#28,290

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « personal » (#28,289), « pistons » (#28,291), « Perrot » (#28,288). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « perverse » est au #28,290. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around perverse (IPA \pɛʁ.vɛʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,290 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for perverse, with forms such as "eprverse", "perevrse", and "perrverse". 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, "perverses", "perversité", "pervers", 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 perverse, spelled P-E-R-V-E-R-S-E.

Definition

1
Antonyme de convertie, personne qui a quitté la religion considérée comme vraie, apostate.
2
Celle qui est totalement dépourvue de sentiments et de sens moral, encline à faire le mal volontairement et dont le caractère asocial se manifeste très tôt, dès l’enfance.
3
Celle dont le comportement sexuel s’écarte de la normalité.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

eprverse
perevrse
perrverse
perveres
perverrse
perversse
pervesre
pervrese
pervverse
pevrerse
pperverse
preverse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perverse - 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.

Edit distance from "perverse"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "perverse"?

"perverse" is spelled P-E-R-V-E-R-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.vɛʁs\.

What does "perverse" mean?

As a noun, "perverse" means: Antonyme de convertie, personne qui a quitté la religion considérée comme vraie, apostate.

What words are commonly confused with "perverse"?

"perverse" is commonly confused with "perverses", "perversité", "pervers". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "perverse"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "perverse" is \pɛʁ.vɛʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "perverse" come from?

"perverse" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "perverse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

personal#28,289 pleuvait#28,293 plongent#28,294 passerez#28,283

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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