promettant
\pʁɔ.mɛ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“promettant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,236. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,236
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de promettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-promettant · promettant · French
promettant · rank #17,236 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,236
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pratiquants
Nearest frequency peer: pratiquants (-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 « promettant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- potassium
potassium
82,768 corpus weight
- pourparlers
pourparlers
82,767 corpus weight
- pratiquants
pratiquants
82,766 corpus weight
- promettant
promettant
82,765 corpus weight
- prostate
prostate
82,764 corpus weight
- protégeant
protégeant
82,763 corpus weight
What this shows « promettant » 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 | promettant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mɛ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « promettant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around promettant (IPA \pʁɔ.mɛ.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,236 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de promettre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for promettant, with forms such as "pormettant", "ppromettant", and "prmoettant". 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, "protestant", "promettent", "promenant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 promettant, spelled P-R-O-M-E-T-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de promettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how promettant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussitôt nous courions sus avec nos bâtons pour tâcher, au risque de nous faire piétiner, de « décombattre » les deux qui s’affrontaient, avant que la plus forte n’ait poursuivi l’autre en lui labourant le flanc de sa corne acérée, lui faisant des « glettes » sanguinolentes : spectacle qui nous chagrinait et nous faisait honte tout en nous promettant une…
Il était d’ailleurs debout, dans son costume élégant, à déposer sa mitraille sur la table tout en commandant d’autres verres et promettant d’un regard au patron qu’il allait parler moins fort.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pormettant
- ppromettant
- prmoettant
- proemttant
- prometant
- prometatnt
- promettannt
- promettantt
- promettatn
- promettnat
- prommettant
- promtetant
- prromettant
- rpomettant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of promettant - 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
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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 (14 here; floor ≥5).