pends
\pɑ̃\
The verdict
“pends” is uncommon French (frequency #75,995 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,995
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pends · pends · French
pends · rank #75,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,995
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH percuteur
Nearest frequency peer: percuteur (+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 « pends »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pecho
pecho
24,011 corpus weight
- peco
peco
24,010 corpus weight
- pelleter
pelleter
24,008 corpus weight
- pends
pends
24,006 corpus weight
- percuteur
percuteur
24,005 corpus weight
- Pesaro
Pesaro
24,002 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pends » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pends |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pends » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pends is uncommon French at frequency #75,995 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
pends has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pends, spelled P-E-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pendre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de pendre.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de 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.
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