prometteur
\pʁɔ.mɛ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“prometteur” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,876. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,876
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui promet, qui donne à espérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prometteur · prometteur · French
prometteur · rank #13,876 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,876
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH projeter
Nearest frequency peer: projeter (-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 « prometteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prié
prié
86,128 corpus weight
- programmée
programmée
86,127 corpus weight
- projeter
projeter
86,126 corpus weight
- prometteur
prometteur
86,125 corpus weight
- protestant
protestant
86,124 corpus weight
- prépa
prépa
86,123 corpus weight
What this shows « prometteur » 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 | prometteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mɛ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prometteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around prometteur (IPA \pʁɔ.mɛ.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,876 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui promet, qui donne à espérer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for prometteur, with forms such as "pormetteur", "pprometteur", and "prmoetteur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "promoteur", "protecteur", "prometteuse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is prometteur, spelled P-R-O-M-E-T-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui promet, qui donne à espérer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prometteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la fenêtre, le rideau bat comme une aile, le chaud parfum va et vient, comme ta main prometteuse sur mes cheveux, comme ta lèvre ensorcelante sur mon cou, comme ton amour qui mène sa somptueuse galère dans mon cœur palpitant.
Après un début de saison prometteur, ponctué par deux victoires en trois courses, Ferrari n’a fait qu’enchaîner les boulettes et les contre-performances. Au point de devenir la risée du paddock.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pormetteur
- pprometteur
- prmoetteur
- proemtteur
- prometetur
- prometeur
- prometteru
- prometteurr
- promettuer
- prommetteur
- promteteur
- prrometteur
- rpometteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prometteur - 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).