Which to use
“permettrais” and “permettrait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #49,268
- “permettrais” frequency rank
- #5,906
- “permettrait” frequency rank
- 55174
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | permettrais | permettrait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de permettre. | Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de permettre. |
Same sound, different letters: permettrais vs permettrait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. permettrais and permettrait follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Same sound, different spelling - permettrais / permettrait
This is the hard kind. permettrais and permettrait are pronounced identically (\pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ\) 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 a single letter - s in “permettrais” becomes t in “permettrait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55174, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
permettrais is recorded at frequency rank #49,268, classified as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ\. 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 55174, this pair ranks #129,186 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of permettrais vs permettrait
Shared letters: aeimprt. Private to "permettrais": s. Private to "permettrait": -.
"permettrais" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVVC · "permettrait" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- permettrais ← eprmettrais · pemrettrais · peremttrais · permetrais · permetrtais · permettaris · permettraiss · permettrasi
- permettrait ← eprmettrait · pemrettrait · peremttrait · permetrait · permetrtait · permettarit · permettraitt · permettrati
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "permettrais" for "permettrait" ever safe?
Frequency check: "permettrais" vs "permettrait" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"permettrais" and "permettrait" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "permettrais" 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 #129,186 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "permettrais" 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 #129,186 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.