Which to use
“permette” and “permettent” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,827
- “permette” frequency rank
- #1,881
- “permettent” frequency rank
- 13708
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | permette | permettent |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de permettre. | Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de permettre. |
Same sound, different letters: permette vs permettent
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. permette runs 8 letters (CVCCVCCV) against permettent's 10 (CVCCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - permette / permettent
This is the hard kind. permette and permettent are pronounced identically (\pɛʁ.mɛt\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “permette” sits inside “permettent”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13708, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
permette is recorded at frequency rank #11,827, classified as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.mɛt\. permettent is at rank #1,881, tagged as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.mɛt\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 13708, this pair ranks #399,864 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of permette vs permettent
Shared letters: emprt. Private to "permette": -. Private to "permettent": n.
"permette" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV · "permettent" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- permette ← eprmette · pemrette · peremtte · permete · permetet · permmette · permtete · perrmette
- permettent ← eprmettent · pemrettent · peremttent · permetent · permetetnt · permettennt · permettentt · permettetn
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "permette" for "permettent" ever safe?
Frequency check: "permette" vs "permettent" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"permette" and "permettent" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "permette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "permettent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #399,864 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "permette" and "permettent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "permette vs pierrette". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #399,864 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.