pend
\pɑ̃\
The verdict
“pend” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,710. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,710
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pend · pend · French
pend · rank #24,710 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,710
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peer
Nearest frequency peer: peer (-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 « pend »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- patronale
patronale
75,294 corpus weight
- payeur
payeur
75,293 corpus weight
- peer
peer
75,292 corpus weight
- pend
pend
75,291 corpus weight
- pensionnat
pensionnat
75,290 corpus weight
- perfusion
perfusion
75,289 corpus weight
What this shows « pend » 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 | pend |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pend »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around pend (IPA \pɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,710 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pend, with forms such as "epnd", "pedn", and "pendd". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PN", "peu", "pin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pend, spelled P-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pendre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnd
- pedn
- pendd
- pennd
- pned
- ppend
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pend - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).