promener
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,743
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
promener is aFrenchverb. It means: Mener, conduire, faire aller quelqu’un de côté ou d’autre, soit pour l’amuser, soit pour qu’il prenne de l’exercice. Pronounced \pʁɔ.mə.ne\. It ranks #7,743 in French word frequency. Often confused with prôner and provenir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promener |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mə.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for promener is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.mə.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,743 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for promener, with forms such as "pormener", "ppromener", and "prmoener". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "prôner", "provenir", "proteger", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is promener, spelled P-R-O-M-E-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mener, conduire, faire aller quelqu’un de côté ou d’autre, soit pour l’amuser, soit pour qu’il prenne de l’exercice.
- 2Faire une promenade.
- 3Se promener, faire une promenade.
- 4Faire aller ; porter de côté et d’autre.
- 5Abuser, lasser par des délais, par des promesses vaines, mener en bateau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pormener,ppromener,prmoener,proemner,promeenr,promenerr,promenner,promenre,prommener,promneer,prromener,rpomener
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for promener
Misspelling Variants of "promener"
Frequency rank: #7,743 in French
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