permettent
\pɛʁ.mɛt\
The verdict
“permettent” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,881. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,881
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de permettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-permettent · permettent · French
permettent · rank #1,881 · 14 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,881
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH nécessaires
Nearest frequency peer: nécessaires (-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 « permettent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- musulmans
musulmans
98,123 corpus weight
- numérique
numérique
98,122 corpus weight
- nécessaires
nécessaires
98,121 corpus weight
- permettent
permettent
98,120 corpus weight
- phrase
phrase
98,119 corpus weight
- pointe
pointe
98,118 corpus weight
What this shows « permettent » 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 | permettent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.mɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « permettent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around permettent (IPA \pɛʁ.mɛt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,881 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for permettent, with forms such as "eprmettent", "pemrettent", and "peremttent". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "permettez", "promettent", "perpétuent", 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, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is permettent, spelled P-E-R-M-E-T-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de permettre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de permettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how permettent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons donc besoin de disposer de l’arbre entier des connaissances, où les liaisons verticales fournissent précisément les articulations nécessaires, et permettent finalement de resensorialiser les concepts.
Je vais essayer d’écrire, en me cramponnant à mon bureau, mais je crains que les mouvements désordonnés du bateau ne le permettent pas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprmettent
- pemrettent
- peremttent
- permetent
- permetetnt
- permettennt
- permettentt
- permettetn
- permettnet
- permmettent
- permtetent
- perrmettent
- ppermettent
- premettent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of permettent - 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 "permettent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).