pendule
\pɑ̃.dyl\
The verdict
“pendule” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,937. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,937
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tout système constitué d’un corps pesant, un balancier, oscillant autour d’un axe horizontal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pendule · pendule · French
pendule · rank #19,937 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,937
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pea
Nearest frequency peer: pea (-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 « pendule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- payants
payants
80,067 corpus weight
- PD
PD
80,066 corpus weight
- pea
pea
80,065 corpus weight
- pendule
pendule
80,064 corpus weight
- penseur
penseur
80,063 corpus weight
- PHP
PHP
80,062 corpus weight
What this shows « pendule » 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 | pendule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.dyl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pendule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pendule (IPA \pɑ̃.dyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,937 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pendule, with forms such as "epndule", "pednule", and "penddule". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "perdue", "pendus", "pénible", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pendule, spelled P-E-N-D-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Tout système constitué d’un corps pesant, un balancier, oscillant autour d’un axe horizontal.
- 2Sorte de corps pesant que les radiesthésistes agitent au bout d'un fil pour découvrir ce qui est caché ou perdu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pendule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pendule simple est formé d’un corps pesant suspendu à l’extrémité d’un fil sans masse.
L’oscillation du pendule.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epndule
- pednule
- penddule
- pendlue
- penduel
- pendulle
- penndule
- penudle
- pnedule
- ppendule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pendule - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).