promesses
\pʁɔ.mes\
The verdict
“promesses” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,365. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,365
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de promesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-promesses · promesses · French
promesses · rank #4,365 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,365
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH programmation
Nearest frequency peer: programmation (-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 « promesses »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- portait
portait
95,639 corpus weight
- poulet
poulet
95,638 corpus weight
- programmati…
programmation
95,637 corpus weight
- promesses
promesses
95,636 corpus weight
- provoquer
provoquer
95,635 corpus weight
- publications
publications
95,634 corpus weight
What this shows « promesses » 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 | promesses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mes\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « promesses »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around promesses (IPA \pʁɔ.mes\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,365 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de promesse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for promesses, with forms such as "pormesses", "ppromesses", and "prmoesses". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "prouesse", "promises", "prouesses", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is promesses, spelled P-R-O-M-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de promesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how promesses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’enquêteur ne compte pas s’inscrire sur les listes électorales pour les raisons évoquées plus haut, à savoir l’impossibilité de « désélire » une personne qui n’aurait pas tenu ses promesses.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pormesses
- ppromesses
- prmoesses
- proemsses
- promesess
- promessess
- promessse
- prommesses
- promseses
- prromesses
- rpomesses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of promesses - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).