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“permettrai” and “permettrait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#36,528
“permettrai” frequency rank
#5,906
“permettrait” frequency rank
42434
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature permettrai permettrait
Definition Première personne du singulier du futur de permettre. Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de permettre.

Where the eye mixes permettrai and permettrait

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. permettrai runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCCVV) against permettrait's 11 (CVCCVCCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
permettrai
11 ch
permettrait

Why the eye confuses permettrai with permettrait

A purely visual mix-up. permettrai (\pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁe\) and permettrait (\pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “permettrai” sits inside “permettrait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42434, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

permettrai is recorded at frequency rank #36,528, classified as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁe\. permettrait is at rank #5,906, tagged as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ\.

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 42434, this pair ranks #225,627 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of permettrai vs permettrait

Shared letters: aeimprt. Private to "permettrai": -. Private to "permettrait": -.

"permettrai" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVV  ·  "permettrait" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • permettraieprmettrai · pemrettrai · peremttrai · permetrai · permetrtai · permettari · permettria · permettrrai
  • permettraiteprmettrait · pemrettrait · peremttrait · permetrait · permetrtait · permettarit · permettraitt · permettrati

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "permettrai" and "permettrait" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁe\ versus \pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "permettrai" or "permettrait"?
"permettrait" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,906 in our French list, against #36,528 for "permettrai". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "permettrai" and "permettrait" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "permettrai" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "permettrait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #225,627 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "permettrai" and "permettrait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "permettrai vs permettrais". 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 #225,627 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list