promenait
\pʁɔ.mə.nɛ\
The verdict
“promenait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,689. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,689
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de promener.
Corpus desk
Index FR-promenait · promenait · French
promenait · rank #34,689 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,689
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH projetant
Nearest frequency peer: projetant (-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 « promenait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- privatisati…
privatisations
65,315 corpus weight
- produiront
produiront
65,314 corpus weight
- projetant
projetant
65,313 corpus weight
- promenait
promenait
65,312 corpus weight
- prorata
prorata
65,311 corpus weight
- proscrire
proscrire
65,310 corpus weight
What this shows « promenait » 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 | promenait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « promenait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around promenait (IPA \pʁɔ.mə.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,689 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de promener.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for promenait, with forms such as "pormenait", "ppromenait", and "prmoenait". 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, "prônait", "provenant", "provenait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is promenait, spelled P-R-O-M-E-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de promener.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how promenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se gara comme il put chaussée Kennedy, laissa les deux roues arrière de sa Mercedes envahir le trottoir, ignora le vague grognement d’un piéton qui promenait un chien, un danois haut comme un poulain, et traversa la rue au pas de course.
Gilet causait, politiquait et se promenait quelquefois avec le père Rouget.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pormenait
- ppromenait
- prmoenait
- proemnait
- promeanit
- promenaitt
- promenati
- promeniat
- promennait
- prommenait
- promneait
- prromenait
- rpomenait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of promenait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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).