promenait

\pʁɔ.mə.nɛ\

/\pʁɔ.mə.nɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « promenait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

promenait vs prônait
67% similar
promenait vs provenant
78% similar
promenait vs provenait
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for promenait
PropertyValue
Headwordpromenait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɔ.mə.nɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#34,689
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « promenait »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).promenaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « projetant » (#34,688), « prorata » (#34,690), « produiront » (#34,687). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « promenait » est au #34,689. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de promener.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how promenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

pormenait2ppromenait1prmoenait2proemnait2promeanit2promenaitt1promenati2promeniat2
Edit distance from "promenait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "promenait"?
"promenait" is spelled P-R-O-M-E-N-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.mə.nɛ\.
What does "promenait" mean?
As a verb, "promenait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de promener.
What words are commonly confused with "promenait"?
"promenait" is commonly confused with "prônait", "provenant", "provenait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "promenait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "promenait" is \pʁɔ.mə.nɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "promenait" come from?
"promenait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "promenait", 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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list