pensants
\pɑ̃.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“pensants” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,473. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,473
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de pensant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensants · pensants · French
pensants · rank #37,473 · 13 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,473
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH penchants
Nearest frequency peer: penchants (-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 « pensants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paumée
paumée
62,530 corpus weight
- penchants
penchants
62,529 corpus weight
- pensants
pensants
62,528 corpus weight
- peps
peps
62,527 corpus weight
- perdais
perdais
62,526 corpus weight
- Persée
Persée
62,525 corpus weight
What this shows « pensants » 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 | pensants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pensants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around pensants (IPA \pɑ̃.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,473 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de pensant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for pensants, with forms such as "epnsants", "penasnts", and "pennsants". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "pesant", "pensent", "pensons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pensants, spelled P-E-N-S-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de pensant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pensants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les commerçants en gros et leurs garçons, les employés, les gens de la petite banque et de grande probité, les fripons, les âmes damnées, les premiers et les derniers commis, les clercs de l’huissier, de l’avoué, du notaire, enfin les membres agissants, pensants, spéculants de cette petite bourgeoisie qui triture les intérêts de Paris et veille à son grai…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnsants
- penasnts
- pennsants
- pensannts
- pensanst
- pensantss
- pensantts
- pensatns
- pensnats
- penssants
- pesnants
- pnesants
- ppensants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pensants - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).