penchait
\pɑ̃.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“penchait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,949
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pencher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penchait · penchait · French
penchait · rank #46,949 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,949
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paysagistes
Nearest frequency peer: paysagistes (-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 « penchait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paroissiaux
paroissiaux
53,055 corpus weight
- paysagistes
paysagistes
53,053 corpus weight
- penchait
penchait
53,052 corpus weight
- Peralta
Peralta
53,051 corpus weight
- perfs
perfs
53,050 corpus weight
- philharmonie
philharmonie
53,049 corpus weight
What this shows « penchait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penchait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « penchait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around penchait (IPA \pɑ̃.ʃɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,949 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pencher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for penchait, with forms such as "epnchait", "pecnhait", and "pencahit". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "pensait", "pendait", "penchant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is penchait, spelled P-E-N-C-H-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pencher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how penchait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, elle prenait à témoin la pie-grièche cachée dans l’aubépine ou la mésange à longue queue qui penchait la tête pour l’écouter.
Et, sur la Lison, Jacques, monté à droite, chaudement vêtu d’un pantalon et d’un bourgeron de laine, portant des lunettes à œillères de drap, attachés derrière la tête, sous sa casquette, ne quittait plus la voie des yeux, se penchait à toute seconde, en dehors de la vitre de l’abri, pour mieux voir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnchait
- pecnhait
- pencahit
- pencchait
- penchaitt
- penchati
- penchhait
- penchiat
- penhcait
- pennchait
- pnechait
- ppenchait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of penchait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).