promised
[ˈpɹɑ.mɪst]
The verdict
“promised” is uncommon French (frequency #98,384 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,384
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit et participe passé du verbe promise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-promised · promised · French
promised · rank #98,384 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,384
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH profitiez
Nearest frequency peer: profitiez (-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 « promised »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pratiquais
pratiquais
1,621 corpus weight
- producers
producers
1,619 corpus weight
- profitiez
profitiez
1,618 corpus weight
- promised
promised
1,617 corpus weight
- prosternent
prosternent
1,616 corpus weight
- prothétique
prothétique
1,614 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « promised » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promised |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈpɹɑ.mɪst] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « promised » en français
Rare enough to double-check
promised is uncommon French at frequency #98,384 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈpɹɑ.mɪst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prétérit et participe passé du verbe promise.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for promised, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is promised, spelled P-R-O-M-I-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit et participe passé du verbe promise.
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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