promettaient
\pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ\
The verdict
“promettaient” is uncommon French (frequency #61,059 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,059
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de promettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-promettaient · promettaient · French
promettaient · rank #61,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,059
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prolongeait
Nearest frequency peer: prolongeait (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « promettaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prohibées
prohibées
38,944 corpus weight
- prolongeait
prolongeait
38,943 corpus weight
- promettaient
promettaient
38,942 corpus weight
- préludes
préludes
38,941 corpus weight
- prévenait
prévenait
38,940 corpus weight
- prévisionne…
prévisionnelle
38,939 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « promettaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promettaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #61,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « promettaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
promettaient is uncommon French at frequency #61,059 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de promettre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for promettaient in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is promettaient, spelled P-R-O-M-E-T-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de promettre.
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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