dépensés

\de.pɑ̃.se\

/\de.pɑ̃.se\/ verb

The verdict

“dépensés” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,333. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,333
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de dépenser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-depenses · dépensés · French

dépensés · rank #29,333 · 13 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,333
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dépassements

Nearest frequency peer: dépassements (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dépensés »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « dépensés » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

dépensés vs devenues
50% similar
dépensés vs détenues
63% similar
dépensés vs dispensés
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for dépensés
PropertyValue
Headworddépensés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.pɑ̃.se\
Letters8
Frequency rank#29,333
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dépensés »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).dépensésse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dépassements » (#29,332), « dénonciations » (#29,331), « désintéressé » (#29,335). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dépensés » est au #29,333. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around dépensés (IPA \de.pɑ̃.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,333 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de dépenser.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dépensés, with forms such as "ddépensés", "depenses", and "dpéensés". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "devenues", "détenues", "dispensés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dépensés, spelled D-É-P-E-N-S-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin pluriel de dépenser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dépensés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dès que les cent dollars volés par Mille Milles à ses parents seront dépensés, les deux enfants, c’est entendu, vont se « branle-basser ».

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddépensés
  • depenses
  • dpéensés
  • déepnsés
  • dépennsés
  • dépenssé
  • dépenssés
  • dépenséss
  • dépenéss
  • dépesnés
  • dépnesés
  • déppensés
  • édpensés

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dépensés - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ddépensés1depenses2dpéensés2déepnsés2dépennsés1dépenssé2dépenssés1dépenséss1
Edit distance from "dépensés"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dépensés"?
"dépensés" is spelled D-É-P-E-N-S-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \de.pɑ̃.se\.
What does "dépensés" mean?
As a verb, "dépensés" means: Participe passé masculin pluriel de dépenser.
What words are commonly confused with "dépensés"?
"dépensés" is commonly confused with "devenues", "détenues", "dispensés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dépensés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dépensés" is \de.pɑ̃.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dépensés" come from?
"dépensés" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dépensés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list