permettrais
\pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ\
The verdict
“permettrais” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #49,268 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #49,268
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de permettre.
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 | permettrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #49,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “permettrais” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for permettrais is 11 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #49,268 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for permettrais, with forms such as "eprmettrais", "pemrettrais", and "peremttrais". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "permettrait", "permettra", "permettait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 permettrais, spelled P-E-R-M-E-T-T-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de permettre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du conditionnel de permettre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprmettrais,pemrettrais,peremttrais,permetrais,permetrtais,permettaris,permettraiss,permettrasi,permettrias,permettrrais,permmettrais,permtetrais,perrmettrais,ppermettrais,premettrais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of permettrais - 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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Using “permettrais”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-R-M-E-T-T-R-A-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “permettrait” - see the side-by-side comparison. permettrais vs permettrait
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.