pensait
\pɑ̃.sɛ\
The verdict
“pensait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,867. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,867
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de penser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensait · pensait · French
pensait · rank #3,867 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,867
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passait
Nearest frequency peer: passait (-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 « pensait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- négociations
négociations
96,137 corpus weight
- parisiens
parisiens
96,136 corpus weight
- passait
passait
96,135 corpus weight
- pensait
pensait
96,134 corpus weight
- prochaines
prochaines
96,133 corpus weight
- précieux
précieux
96,132 corpus weight
What this shows « pensait » 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 | pensait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pensait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pensait (IPA \pɑ̃.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,867 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de penser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pensait, with forms such as "epnsait", "penasit", and "pennsait". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "pesant", "posait", "pesait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pensait, spelled P-E-N-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de penser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pensait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il pensait également et infailliblement à désencourager le mariage de raison comme il avait fait avec Wendkonta et dans le meilleur des cas, instaurer une liberté absolue au profit des jeunes gens des temps modernes, avec la permission du chef de village.
Leur matière et leur patine profonde quasi laquée témoignent d’une extrême ancienneté (plusieurs siècles pour certains) et nous renvoient à une interrogation sur nous-mêmes à travers la quête du sens et de nos origines, à une époque pas si lointaine pour certains et encore vivante (mais pour combien de temps encore…) pour d’autres où l’homme se pensait en…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnsait
- penasit
- pennsait
- pensaitt
- pensati
- pensiat
- penssait
- pesnait
- pnesait
- ppensait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pensait - 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
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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).