permettez
\pɛʁ.mɛ.te\
The verdict
“permettez” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,438
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de permettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-permettez · permettez · French
permettez · rank #12,438 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,438
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Patricia
Nearest frequency peer: Patricia (-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 « permettez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- orge
orge
87,566 corpus weight
- parvenus
parvenus
87,565 corpus weight
- Patricia
Patricia
87,564 corpus weight
- permettez
permettez
87,563 corpus weight
- perçoit
perçoit
87,562 corpus weight
- pics
pics
87,560 corpus weight
What this shows « permettez » 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 | permettez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.mɛ.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « permettez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around permettez (IPA \pɛʁ.mɛ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,438 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for permettez, with forms such as "eprmettez", "pemrettez", and "peremttez". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "permettre", "permettra", "permette", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is permettez, spelled P-E-R-M-E-T-T-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de permettre.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de permettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how permettez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Adieu ! mon maître, reprit le clerc en criant à tue-tête, vous me permettez d’aller renarder dans le kiosque de mame Amaury ?…
Monsieur, lui dis-je, permettez-moi de vous remercier d’abord de la confiance que vous avez en moi.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprmettez
- pemrettez
- peremttez
- permetetz
- permetez
- permettezz
- permettze
- permmettez
- permtetez
- perrmettez
- ppermettez
- premettez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of permettez - 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 "permettez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).