pendre

\pɑ̃dʁ\

/\pɑ̃dʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“pendre” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,110
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attacher une chose, une personne ou un animal en haut par une de ses parties, de manière qu’elle ne touche pas en bas.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pendre · pendre · French

pendre · rank #14,110 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #14,110
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH partira

Nearest frequency peer: partira (-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 « pendre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pendre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pendre vs père
50% similar
pendre vs pensé
50% similar
pendre vs pente
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pendre
PropertyValue
Headwordpendre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pɑ̃dʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#14,110
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pendre »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pendrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « partira » (#14,109), « perquisition » (#14,111), « papy » (#14,108). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pendre » est au #14,110. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around pendre (IPA \pɑ̃dʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,110 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pendre, with forms such as "epndre", "pednre", and "penddre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "père", "pensé", "pente", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pendre, spelled P-E-N-D-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Attacher une chose, une personne ou un animal en haut par une de ses parties, de manière qu’elle ne touche pas en bas.
  2. 2
    Attacher à la potence, pour le mettre à mort, en parlant de quelqu’un.
  3. 3
    Être suspendu.
  4. 4
    Tomber, descendre trop bas.
  5. 5
    (réfléchi) Se donner la mort, s’étrangler en se suspendant par le cou ; se suicider par pendaison.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pendre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une cage à serins était pendue au plafond ; les oiseaux avaient été emportés, mais la mangeoire était pleine de chenevis.
  2. Pendre de la viande au croc. — Pendre un lièvre par les pattes de derrière.

This word in other languages

string up(English)pender(Español)hängen(Deutsch)pender(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • epndre
  • pednre
  • penddre
  • pender
  • pendrre
  • penndre
  • penrde
  • pnedre
  • ppendre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pendre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

epndre2pednre2penddre1pender2pendrre1penndre1penrde2pnedre2
Edit distance from "pendre"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pendre"?
"pendre" is spelled P-E-N-D-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɑ̃dʁ\.
What does "pendre" mean?
As a verb, "pendre" means: Attacher une chose, une personne ou un animal en haut par une de ses parties, de manière qu’elle ne touche pas en bas.
What words are commonly confused with "pendre"?
"pendre" is commonly confused with "père", "pensé", "pente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pendre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pendre" is \pɑ̃dʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pendre" come from?
"pendre" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pendre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

projette9 variantspédale9 variantsraciale9 variantsmalins9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list