pensai
\pɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“pensai” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,594
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de penser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensai · pensai · French
pensai · rank #43,594 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,594
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PDC
Nearest frequency peer: PDC (-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 « pensai »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- passives
passives
56,410 corpus weight
- payais
payais
56,409 corpus weight
- PDC
PDC
56,408 corpus weight
- pensai
pensai
56,407 corpus weight
- permanences
permanences
56,405 corpus weight
- perpendicul…
perpendiculairement
56,404 corpus weight
What this shows « pensai » 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 | pensai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pensai »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pensai (IPA \pɑ̃.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,594 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple de penser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pensai, with forms such as "epnsai", "penasi", and "pennsai". 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, "pensé", "Pepsi", "penser", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pensai, spelled P-E-N-S-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de penser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnsai
- penasi
- pennsai
- pensia
- penssai
- pesnai
- pnesai
- ppensai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pensai - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).