pensant
\pɑ̃.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“pensant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,905
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui pense, qui est capable de penser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensant · pensant · French
pensant · rank #5,905 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,905
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paysages
Nearest frequency peer: paysages (-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 « pensant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- particules
particules
94,099 corpus weight
- pavillon
pavillon
94,098 corpus weight
- paysages
paysages
94,097 corpus weight
- pensant
pensant
94,096 corpus weight
- permettrait
permettrait
94,095 corpus weight
- plaine
plaine
94,094 corpus weight
What this shows « pensant » 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 | pensant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pensant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around pensant (IPA \pɑ̃.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,905 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui pense, qui est capable de penser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pensant, with forms such as "epnsant", "penasnt", and "pennsant". 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, "pesant", "posant", "pèsent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pensant, spelled P-E-N-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui pense, qui est capable de penser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pensant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— C’est horrible ! horrible, murmura-t-il, nous sommes indignes de l’humanité… Que ce soit la lâcheté ou l’amour qui ait paralysé Jacques, nous ne devions pas, nous, des natures pensantes, nous laisser aller ainsi à l’emportement.
Nous considérons alors que les relations intersubjectives sont indispensables au retour dans la vie du sujet « chosifié » par le traumatisme, et que c’est par la restauration des liens interpersonnels que celui-ci retrouvera sa place au sein de la communauté des êtres vivants en étant repositionné comme être parlant et pensant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnsant
- penasnt
- pennsant
- pensannt
- pensantt
- pensatn
- pensnat
- penssant
- pesnant
- pnesant
- ppensant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pensant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).