mettent
\mɛt\
The verdict
“mettent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,088. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,088
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de mettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettent · mettent · French
mettent · rank #2,088 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,088
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menace
Nearest frequency peer: menace (-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 « mettent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- islam
islam
97,916 corpus weight
- locale
locale
97,915 corpus weight
- menace
menace
97,914 corpus weight
- mettent
mettent
97,913 corpus weight
- mobile
mobile
97,912 corpus weight
- mouvements
mouvements
97,911 corpus weight
What this shows « mettent » 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 | mettent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mettent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around mettent (IPA \mɛt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,088 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mettent, with forms such as "emttent", "metent", and "metetnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "mettez", "mettes", "mettons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mettent, spelled M-E-T-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de mettre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de mettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mettent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Cahiers Mac Orlan quant à eux, dont l’Association des amis est présidée par l’infatigable Francis Lacassin (et qui mena un combat homérique et imbrogliesque avec la municipalité de Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin, où l’écrivain avait sa maison), mettent un point d’honneur à publier des inédits de l’auteur du Quai des brumes.
Personne ne répondant, ils se risquent à lécher les murs : Hansel arrache un gros morceau de la grille, que sa sœur et lui se mettent à grignotter à belles dents…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emttent
- metent
- metetnt
- mettennt
- mettentt
- mettetn
- mettnet
- mmettent
- mtetent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mettent - 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.
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 "mettent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).