promenade
\pʁɔm.nad\
The verdict
“promenade” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,128. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,128
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de se promener.
Corpus desk
Index FR-promenade · promenade · French
promenade · rank #6,128 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,128
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poursuivi
Nearest frequency peer: poursuivi (-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 « promenade »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plages
plages
93,876 corpus weight
- pouces
pouces
93,875 corpus weight
- poursuivi
poursuivi
93,874 corpus weight
- promenade
promenade
93,873 corpus weight
- prêté
prêté
93,872 corpus weight
- publiées
publiées
93,871 corpus weight
What this shows « promenade » 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 | promenade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔm.nad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « promenade »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around promenade (IPA \pʁɔm.nad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,128 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for promenade, with forms such as "pormenade", "ppromenade", and "prmoenade". 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, "promené", "promenant", "promenait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is promenade, spelled P-R-O-M-E-N-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Action de se promener.
- 2Exercice de marche pour les troupes.
- 3Itinéraire parcouru en imagination.
- 4Trajet aisé à accomplir.
- 5Lieu où l’on se promène.
- 6Enclos où les détenus peuvent déambuler en groupe quelques minutes par jour ; temps de cette déambulation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how promenade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ni les Persans ni tous les Orientaux ne savent ce que c’est que des promenades comme nous les faisons, et ils ne peuvent assez s’étonner de nous voir marcher dans une allée de jardin, puis revenir sur nos pas, et ainsi continuer deux ou trois heures.
Que faire donc ? je ne fume jamais ; la fidélité matrimoniale est bien ennuyeuse ; dans une intrigue où le cœur n’est que chatouillé on ne vise qu’au dénoûment : la promenade est mon unique plaisir ; triste plaisir à vingt ans !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pormenade
- ppromenade
- prmoenade
- proemnade
- promeande
- promenadde
- promenaed
- promendae
- promennade
- prommenade
- promneade
- prromenade
- rpomenade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of promenade - 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 "promenade", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).