pénalisent
\pe.na.liz\
The verdict
“pénalisent” is uncommon French (frequency #74,305 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,305
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe pénaliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penalisent · pénalisent · French
pénalisent · rank #74,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,305
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pul
Nearest frequency peer: pul (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pénalisent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pubiens
pubiens
25,699 corpus weight
- pucelles
pucelles
25,698 corpus weight
- pul
pul
25,697 corpus weight
- pénalisent
pénalisent
25,696 corpus weight
- périhélie
périhélie
25,695 corpus weight
- Qasim
Qasim
25,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pénalisent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pénalisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.na.liz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pénalisent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pénalisent is uncommon French at frequency #74,305 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pe.na.liz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pénalisent in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 pénalisent, spelled P-É-N-A-L-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe pénaliser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe pénaliser.
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.
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