promettre monts et merveilles
The verdict
“promettre monts et merveilles” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 29
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Promettre toutes sortes de choses avantageuses ; et surtout en parlant de ceux qui, pour engager quelqu’un à faire ce qu’ils désirent, lui promettent beaucoup plus qu’ils ne veulent ou ne peuvent t...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promettre monts et merveilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁə mɔ̃.z‿e mɛʁ.vɛj\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “promettre monts et merveilles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for promettre monts et merveilles is 29 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁə mɔ̃.z‿e mɛʁ.vɛj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Promettre toutes sortes de choses avantageuses ; et surtout en parlant de ceux qui, pour engager quelqu’un à faire ce qu’ils désirent, lui promettent beaucoup plus qu’ils ne veulent ou ne peuvent t...".
No misspelling variants are generated for promettre monts et merveilles in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is promettre monts et merveilles, spelled P-R-O-M-E-T-T-R-E- -M-O-N-T-S- -E-T- -M-E-R-V-E-I-L-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Promettre toutes sortes de choses avantageuses ; et surtout en parlant de ceux qui, pour engager quelqu’un à faire ce qu’ils désirent, lui promettent beaucoup plus qu’ils ne veulent ou ne peuvent tenir.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-M-E-T-T-R-E- -M-O-N-T-S- -E-T- -M-E-R-V-E-I-L-L-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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