pendus
\pɑ̃.dy\
The verdict
“pendus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,560
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de pendu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pendus · pendus · French
pendus · rank #27,560 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,560
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pee
Nearest frequency peer: pee (-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 « pendus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- partageaient
partageaient
72,444 corpus weight
- pathogènes
pathogènes
72,443 corpus weight
- pee
pee
72,442 corpus weight
- pendus
pendus
72,441 corpus weight
- pensera
pensera
72,440 corpus weight
- pep
pep
72,439 corpus weight
What this shows « pendus » 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 | pendus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.dy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pendus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pendus (IPA \pɑ̃.dy\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,560 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de pendu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pendus, with forms such as "epndus", "pednus", and "penddus". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "perdu", "perds", "pneus", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pendus, spelled P-E-N-D-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de pendu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epndus
- pednus
- penddus
- pendsu
- penduss
- penndus
- penuds
- pnedus
- ppendus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pendus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "pendus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).