permette
\pɛʁ.mɛt\
The verdict
“permette” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,827. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,827
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de permettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-permette · permette · French
permette · rank #11,827 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,827
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH percée
Nearest frequency peer: percée (-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 « permette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- partenariats
partenariats
88,177 corpus weight
- payent
payent
88,176 corpus weight
- percée
percée
88,175 corpus weight
- permette
permette
88,174 corpus weight
- photographes
photographes
88,173 corpus weight
- pianiste
pianiste
88,172 corpus weight
What this shows « permette » 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 | permette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.mɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « permette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around permette (IPA \pɛʁ.mɛt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,827 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for permette, with forms such as "eprmette", "pemrette", and "peremtte". 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, "perpétue", "perpétré", "permettre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is permette, spelled P-E-R-M-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de permettre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de permettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how permette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le plus souvent les deux taillants sont parallèles ou se rapprochent à peine vers leurs extrémités, mais peuvent aussi converger au point qu’une diminution suffisante de largeur à l’une d’elles permette à la main d’empaumer la pièce et d’assurer une prise convenable comme le ferait un manche.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprmette
- pemrette
- peremtte
- permete
- permetet
- permmette
- permtete
- perrmette
- ppermette
- premette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of permette - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).