pensable
\pɑ̃.sabl\
The verdict
“pensable” is uncommon French (frequency #82,325 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,325
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui peut être pensé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensable · pensable · French
pensable · rank #82,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,325
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pende
Nearest frequency peer: pende (-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 « pensable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pelviennes
pelviennes
17,678 corpus weight
- pende
pende
17,677 corpus weight
- pensable
pensable
17,676 corpus weight
- pera
pera
17,675 corpus weight
- perdrons
perdrons
17,674 corpus weight
- pernes
pernes
17,673 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pensable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pensable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.sabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pensable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pensable is uncommon French at frequency #82,325 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɑ̃.sabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ce qui peut être pensé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pensable in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pensable, spelled P-E-N-S-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ce qui peut être pensé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pensable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et si une certaine « sécularisation du pensable » définit irréversiblement notre situation herméneutique, cela n'empêche pas Certeau d'examiner comment, dans cette donne nouvelle, le christianisme demeure pensable.
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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