penchant
The verdict
“penchant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,202
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui penche, qui est incliné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penchant · penchant · French
penchant · rank #16,202 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,202
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pearl
Nearest frequency peer: pearl (-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 « penchant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- partielles
partielles
83,802 corpus weight
- patrouilles
patrouilles
83,801 corpus weight
- pearl
pearl
83,800 corpus weight
- penchant
penchant
83,799 corpus weight
- pentagone
pentagone
83,798 corpus weight
- peuplée
peuplée
83,796 corpus weight
What this shows « penchant » 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 | penchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « penchant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around penchant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,202 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for penchant, with forms such as "epnchant", "pecnhant", and "pencahnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "pendant", "pensant", "perçant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is penchant, spelled P-E-N-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui penche, qui est incliné.
- 2Pente, terrain qui va en baissant.
- 3Qui est dans le déclin, qui est sur son déclin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how penchant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un mur penchant.
Une muraille penchante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnchant
- pecnhant
- pencahnt
- pencchant
- penchannt
- penchantt
- penchatn
- penchhant
- penchnat
- penhcant
- pennchant
- pnechant
- ppenchant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of penchant - 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).