Pertinence

Definition: Pertinence

Pertinence

Noun

1. Relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand.

Date "pertinence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	The usefulness of a relevant document at a particular time to a particular inquirer. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pertinence

Synonyms: applicability (n), pertinency (n). (additional references)

Antonym: inapplicability (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Agreement	Fitness, aptness; Adjective: relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey; sortance; case in point; aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation; (relation).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Pertinence

English words defined with "pertinence": ancient history, apposite, appropriate, apt ♦ germaneness ♦ Pertinacy, pertinent. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pertinence": Peer Review, Research, pertinence ratio ♦ retrieval outcome, retrieval results ♦ search outcome. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Pertinence" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (pertinence, relevance, suitability).

Domain	Title
Books	Avis sur la pertinence des conseils régionaux de l'environnement : rapport (reference) Cohérence, pertinence et évaluation (reference) De la pertinence des théories "économistes" de fécondité dans le contexte socio-culturel camerounais et negro-africain (reference) Diagnostic financier et gestion des ressources humaines : nécessité et pertinence du bilan social (reference) Langage et pertinence : référence temporelle, anaphore, connecteurs et métaphore (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Pertinence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pertinence" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	22	74,468

Expressions using "pertinence": pertinence ratio ♦ without pertinence. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "pertinence": non-pertinence.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "pertinence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të qenët me vend (pertinency, suitability), lidhje me çështjen (pertinency). (various references)

Arabic		‏وثاقة الصلة, ‏إنتماء (belonging, relationship). (various references)

Bulgarian		уместност (advisability, appropriateness, felicity, neatness, poignancy, propriety, relevance, relevancy). (various references)

Chinese		切中要害. (various references)

Czech		případnost, příhodnost (convenience), vhodnost (appropriateness, aptness, convenience, fitness, propriety, suitability). (various references)

Danish		brugerspecifik relevans (pertinency). (various references)

Dutch		pertinentie (pertinency), pertinent karakter. (various references)

Farsi		مناسبت (Adequacy, Attune, Decorum, Felicity, Rapport), موقعیت (Berth, Case, Lie, Location, Occasion, Plot, Position, Situation), وابستگی (Affinity, Coherency, Contiguity, Dependence, Interdependence, Kindred, Relationship), اقتضاء (Expediency, Felicity), شایستگی (Ability, Adequacy, Aptitude, Aptness, Competence, Decency, Desert, Eligibility, Merit, Sufficiency), دخل (Income). (various references)

Finnish		soveltuvuus (suitability), osuvuus (pertinency), merkityksellisyys (pertinency). (various references)

French		pertinence (pertinency). (various references)

German		Relevanz (Bedeutung). (various references)

Greek		καταλληλότητα (adequacy, appropriateness, aptness, fitness, properness, suitability), σχέση (affinity, association, bearing, communion, concern, connection, dealings, pertinency, ratio, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy), αρμοδιότησ (fitness, likely, patness, propriety, relevance, relevancy, suitability). (various references)

Hebrew		שיכות (affiliation, belonging, nexus, ownership, relation). (various references)

Hungarian		helytállóság (watertightness), helyesség (advisedness, exactness, justness, propriety, seemliness, soundness). (various references)

Indonesian		ketepatan (accuracy, accurateness), kegunaan (expediency, purpose, use). (various references)

Italian		pertinenza (pertinency, relevancy). (various references)

Pig Latin		ertinencepay

Portuguese		pertinência (pertinency, relevance, relevancy), tenacidade (obstinate, persistence, tenaciousness, tenacity), concernência (pertinency). (various references)

Romanian		pertinenţã, legãturã (band, bandage, bearing, bind, binder, binding, bond, brace, bracer, bunch, bundle, communion, concern, conjunction, connection, contact, cord, harmony, headkerchief, hoist, junction, knot, lashing, league, liaison, ligament, link, link up, marriage, nexus, pack, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, respect, sheaf, tie, touch, truss, unity). (various references)

Russian		уместность (appositeness, appropriateness, propriety, relevance, relevancy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pogodnost (convenience, fitness, suitability), značajnost (notability, relevance, relevancy, weightiness), važnost (consequence, importance, magnitude, moment, weight, weightiness). (various references)

Spanish		pertinencia (applicability, dispassion, pertinency, relevance, relevancy). (various references)

Swedish		tillämplighet (appliance, appliances, applicability, application), samband (bearing, concern, conjunction, connection, connexion, correlation, liaison, nexus, relationship, tie up), relevans (relevance, relevancy), användarspecifik relevans (pertinency). (various references)

Turkish		yerindelik (appositeness, legitimacy, opportuneness, propriety, suitability, timeliness), uygunluk (acceptability, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, advisability, appositeness, aptitude, coherence, coherency, comeliness, compatibility, concord, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, convenience, correctitude, correctness, correspondence, decency, expedience, expediency, felicity, fidelity, fitness, handiness, happiness, opportuneness, propitiousness, propriety, relevance, relevancy, seemliness, sufficiency, suitability), ilgi (affinity, attachment, attention, bearing, care, concern, connection, connexion, curiosity, interest, involvement, liking, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relativeness, relevance, relevancy, respect, solicitude, sympathies, sympathy, thought). (various references)

Ukranian		зв'язок (association, bonding, bracer, catena, chain, coherence, communication, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, join, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, pertinency, rapport, relationship, thread, tie), доречність (appropriateness, aptitude, aptness, fitness, happiness, pertinency, propriety, relevance, relevancy, rightness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự thích hợp (adequacy, adequateness, appropriateness, congruity, congurence, fitness, pertinency, propriety, relevance, relevancy, suitability, suitableness), sự thích đáng (adequacy, adequateness, appropriateness, aptness, pertinency, propriety, relevance, relevancy), sự đúng chỗ (aptness, pertinency). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pertinence": pertinences. (additional references)
	Words ending with "pertinence": impertinence. (additional references)
	Words containing "pertinence": impertinences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pertinence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ipertinence, pentinence, pertainence, pertenence, pertinens. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-n-n-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: epicenter, penitence.
	-2 letters: enceinte, incenter, internee, prentice, pretence, retinene, tenpence, terpenic.
	-3 letters: centner, creepie, enteric, enticer, epicene, interne, pentene, percent, precent, preteen, receipt, teenier, terpene.
	-4 letters: center, centre, cerite, cretin, entice, entire, entree, eterne, incept, intern, pecten, pectin, peerie, penner, piecer, pierce, pincer, pinene, pinner, prince, pterin, recent, recept, recipe, recite, rennet, repent, repine.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-n-n-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: pertinences.
	+2 letters: encipherment, impertinence, intemperance, pertinencies.
	+3 letters: encipherments, impertinences, intemperances, presentencing.
	+4 letters: impertinencies, presentencings.
	+5 letters: interdependence, interdependency, parthenogenetic, persnicketiness, superconvenient, superintendence, superintendency.
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