penda
\ˈpen.da\
The verdict
“penda” is uncommon French (frequency #76,886 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,886
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de pender.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penda · penda · French
penda · rank #76,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,886
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perdions
Nearest frequency peer: perdions (+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 « penda »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pelo
pelo
23,118 corpus weight
- pelvis
pelvis
23,117 corpus weight
- penda
penda
23,115 corpus weight
- perdions
perdions
23,114 corpus weight
- performeur
performeur
23,113 corpus weight
- peshmergas
peshmergas
23,112 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « penda » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈpen.da\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « penda » en français
Rare enough to double-check
penda is uncommon French at frequency #76,886 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈpen.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for penda, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is penda, spelled P-E-N-D-A.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de pender.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de pender.
- 3Troisième personne du singulier de l’impératif de pender.
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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