pencher
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,375
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pencher is aFrenchverb. It means: Incliner ; baisser quelque chose de quelque côté ; mettre quelque chose hors d’aplomb. Pronounced \pɑ̃.ʃe\. Often confused with penser and percer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pencher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pencher is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑ̃.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,375 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for pencher, with forms such as "epncher", "pecnher", and "penccher". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "penser", "percer", "perche", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pencher, spelled P-E-N-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Incliner ; baisser quelque chose de quelque côté ; mettre quelque chose hors d’aplomb.
- 2Se dit de tout ce qui est hors de son aplomb, hors de la ligne perpendiculaire ; de tout ce qui n’est pas de niveau, qui va en descendant.
- 3Être porté à quelque chose ; être enclin à.
- 4En parlant d'un cheval dans une course hippique, ne pas courir droit, avoir une trajectoire inclinée vers un côté, généralement sous le coup de la fatigue.
- 5S’incliner vers le bas ou de côté, se baisser.
- 6Être mis, se mettre dans une position oblique, inclinée, vers le bas.
- 7Se pencher sur : Manifester attention et intérêt pour quelque chose, se consacrer à l’étude de quelque chose.
- 8Avoir, manifester une attitude bienveillante envers quelqu'un, parfois avec une idée de condescendance.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epncher,pecnher,penccher,pencehr,pencherr,penchher,penchre,penhcer,penncher,pnecher,ppencher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pencher
Misspelling Variants of "pencher"
Frequency rank: #10,375 in French
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