Which to use
“permettent” and “permettons” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,881
- “permettent” frequency rank
- #45,781
- “permettons” frequency rank
- 47662
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | permettent | permettons |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de permettre. | Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de permettre. |
Where the eye mixes permettent and permettons
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. permettent and permettons follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCCVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: permettent vs permettons
A purely visual mix-up. permettent (\pɛʁ.mɛt\) and permettons (\pɛʁ.mɛ.tɔ̃\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47662, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
permettent is recorded at frequency rank #1,881, classified as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.mɛt\. permettons is at rank #45,781, tagged as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.mɛ.tɔ̃\.
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 47662, this pair ranks #185,163 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of permettent vs permettons
Shared letters: emnprt. Private to "permettent": -. Private to "permettons": os.
"permettent" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCC · "permettons" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- permettent ← eprmettent · pemrettent · peremttent · permetent · permetetnt · permettennt · permettentt · permettetn
- permettons ← eprmettons · pemrettons · peremttons · permetons · permetotns · permettnos · permettonns · permettonss
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "permettent" for "permettons" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "permettent" or "permettons" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "permettent" and "permettons" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "permettent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "permettons" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #185,163 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "permettent" and "permettons" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "permettons vs permettront". 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 #185,163 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.