promettait
\pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ\
The verdict
“promettait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,986
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de promettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-promettait · promettait · French
promettait · rank #22,986 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,986
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH probité
Nearest frequency peer: probité (-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 « promettait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prenantes
prenantes
77,018 corpus weight
- Princeton
Princeton
77,017 corpus weight
- probité
probité
77,016 corpus weight
- promettait
promettait
77,015 corpus weight
- protectorat
protectorat
77,014 corpus weight
- prouvée
prouvée
77,013 corpus weight
What this shows « promettait » 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 | promettait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #22,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « promettait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around promettait (IPA \pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,986 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de promettre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for promettait, with forms such as "pormettait", "ppromettait", and "prmoettait". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "promettant", "promettent", "promenait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is promettait, spelled P-R-O-M-E-T-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de promettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how promettait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durant ces réunions de comptoir, DuLaurier refaisait le monde de l’ouvrage, « crissait une claque dans la face » d’un ou deux politiciens, promettait que l’année prochaine, on s’agrandirait et embaucherait, puis laissait ses deux fils se moquer gentiment de la petite Honda qu’ils m’avaient rétrocédée : « Elle est cosy et y a de la place dedans, à conditio…
Ce général vient de se débrillanter en personne par deux volumes de Mémoires, qui ont paru depuis quelques jours, et qui ne présentent que dans peu d’endroits l’intérêt que l’on s’en promettait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pormettait
- ppromettait
- prmoettait
- proemttait
- prometait
- prometatit
- promettaitt
- promettati
- promettiat
- prommettait
- promtetait
- prromettait
- rpomettait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of promettait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).