promette
\pʁɔ.mɛt\
The verdict
“promette” is uncommon French (frequency #84,195 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,195
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de promettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-promette · promette · French
promette · rank #84,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,195
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH projetons
Nearest frequency peer: projetons (-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 « promette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- probably
probably
15,810 corpus weight
- Probst
Probst
15,809 corpus weight
- procura
procura
15,808 corpus weight
- projetons
projetons
15,807 corpus weight
- promette
promette
15,806 corpus weight
- prouva
prouva
15,804 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « promette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « promette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
promette is uncommon French at frequency #84,195 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.mɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for promette, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is promette, spelled P-R-O-M-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de promettre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif 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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