promettre

\pʁɔ.mɛtʁ\

/\pʁɔ.mɛtʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“promettre” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,224. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,224
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’engager verbalement ou par écrit à quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-promettre · promettre · French

promettre · rank #12,224 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,224
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH profonds

Nearest frequency peer: profonds (-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 « promettre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « promettre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

promettre vs projette
78% similar
promettre vs permettre
78% similar
promettre vs Prométhée
56% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for promettre
PropertyValue
Headwordpromettre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɔ.mɛtʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#12,224
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « promettre »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.promettrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « profonds » (#12,223), « prose » (#12,225), « prenaient » (#12,222). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « promettre » est au #12,224. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around promettre (IPA \pʁɔ.mɛtʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,224 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for promettre, with forms such as "pormettre", "ppromettre", and "prmoettre". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "projette", "permettre", "Prométhée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file 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 promettre, spelled P-R-O-M-E-T-T-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    S’engager verbalement ou par écrit à quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Annoncer, prédire, en parlant des personnes et des choses.
  3. 3
    Faire espérer, donner des espérances, en parlant des personnes et des choses.
  4. 4
    Assurer qu’une chose sera.
  5. 5
    Espérer.
  6. 6
    Prendre une ferme résolution.
  7. 7
    S'engager à se lier à quelqu'un.
  8. 8
    Destiner ; affecter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how promettre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Celui-ci promettait naturellement à ses électeurs, comme don de joyeux avènement, la séparation de l’Église et de l’État, l'instruction laïque et la suppression du budget des cultes.
  2. Laurier avait promis ce subside, mais ne l'avait pas fait voter avant son départ pour la conférence impériale de Londres.

Synonyms

engagerassurer

Antonyms

mentir

This word in other languages

promise(English)prometer(Español)zusagen(Deutsch)prometer(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pormettre
  • ppromettre
  • prmoettre
  • proemttre
  • prometre
  • prometrte
  • prometter
  • promettrre
  • prommettre
  • promtetre
  • prromettre
  • rpomettre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of promettre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

pormettre2ppromettre1prmoettre2proemttre2prometre1prometrte2prometter2promettrre1
Edit distance from "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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "promettre"?
"promettre" is spelled P-R-O-M-E-T-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.mɛtʁ\.
What does "promettre" mean?
As a verb, "promettre" means: S’engager verbalement ou par écrit à quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "promettre"?
"promettre" is commonly confused with "projette", "permettre", "Prométhée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "promettre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "promettre" is \pʁɔ.mɛtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "promettre" come from?
"promettre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "promettre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

prenaient#12,222pratiquée#12,221pantalons#12,210optimiser#12,208

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

recueillis12 variantsresearch12 variantsmaternel12 variantsthéorème12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list