permettre
\pɛʁ.mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“permettre” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,121 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #1,121
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Donner liberté, pouvoir de faire, de dire.
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 | permettre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “permettre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for permettre is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.mɛtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,121 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for permettre, with forms such as "eprmettre", "pemrettre", and "peremttre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "perpétré", "promettre", "permette", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 permettre, spelled P-E-R-M-E-T-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Donner liberté, pouvoir de faire, de dire.
- 2…
- 3…
- 4Autoriser à faire usage d’une chose.
- 5Tolérer.
- 6Donner le moyen, la commodité, le loisir, etc., en parlant des choses.
- 7Se donner la licence de faire des choses dont on devrait s’abstenir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprmettre,pemrettre,peremttre,permetre,permetrte,permetter,permettrre,permmettre,permtetre,perrmettre,ppermettre,premettre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of permettre - 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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Using “permettre”
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-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛʁ.mɛtʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “perpétré” - see the side-by-side comparison. permettre vs perpétré
- 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.