pendent
\pɑ̃d\
The verdict
“pendent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,396. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,396
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pendent · pendent · French
pendent · rank #33,396 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,396
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH payement
Nearest frequency peer: payement (-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 « pendent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paraîtrait
paraîtrait
66,608 corpus weight
- paulette
paulette
66,607 corpus weight
- payement
payement
66,606 corpus weight
- pendent
pendent
66,605 corpus weight
- Perm
Perm
66,604 corpus weight
- perroquets
perroquets
66,603 corpus weight
What this shows « pendent » 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 | pendent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pendent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around pendent (IPA \pɑ̃d\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,396 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pendent, with forms such as "epndent", "pednent", and "penddent". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "pèsent", "pètent", "peuvent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 pendent, spelled P-E-N-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pendre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de pendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pendent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre les assises de ce monument, terminé par une boule à piquants (quelle idée !), pendent quelques fleurs purpurines, ou jaunes, selon la saison.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epndent
- pednent
- penddent
- pendennt
- pendentt
- pendetn
- pendnet
- penednt
- penndent
- pnedent
- ppendent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pendent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pendent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).