promenant
\pʁɔ.mə.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“promenant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,412. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,412
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de promener.
Corpus desk
Index FR-promenant · promenant · French
promenant · rank #33,412 · 14 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,412
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH practice
Nearest frequency peer: practice (-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 « promenant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poursuis
poursuis
66,592 corpus weight
- practice
practice
66,590 corpus weight
- promenant
promenant
66,589 corpus weight
- prophétique
prophétique
66,588 corpus weight
- précédés
précédés
66,587 corpus weight
- prédomine
prédomine
66,586 corpus weight
What this shows « promenant » 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 | promenant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mə.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « promenant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around promenant (IPA \pʁɔ.mə.nɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,412 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de promener.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for promenant, with forms such as "pormenant", "ppromenant", and "prmoenant". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "prônant", "provenant", "provenait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is promenant, spelled P-R-O-M-E-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de promener.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how promenant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Promenant son chien dans l’avenue Denfert-Rochereau, Yann, ancien pompier aujourd’hui auxiliaire d’ambulance-taxi, dit avoir déjà connu des situations périlleuses.
Je me vengerai, dit-il en se promenant à grands pas, elle en mourra de honte : je la peindrai ! oui, je la représenterai sous les traits de Messaline sortant à la nuit du palais de Claude.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pormenant
- ppromenant
- prmoenant
- proemnant
- promeannt
- promenannt
- promenantt
- promenatn
- promennant
- promennat
- prommenant
- promneant
- prromenant
- rpomenant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of promenant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "promenant", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).