penseurs
\pɑ̃.sœʁ\
The verdict
“penseurs” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,699. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,699
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de penseur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penseurs · penseurs · French
penseurs · rank #16,699 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,699
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH payait
Nearest frequency peer: payait (-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 « penseurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- partons
partons
83,306 corpus weight
- pauses
pauses
83,304 corpus weight
- payait
payait
83,303 corpus weight
- penseurs
penseurs
83,302 corpus weight
- perfect
perfect
83,300 corpus weight
- pharmaciens
pharmaciens
83,299 corpus weight
What this shows « penseurs » 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 | penseurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « penseurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around penseurs (IPA \pɑ̃.sœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,699 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de penseur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for penseurs, with forms such as "epnseurs", "penesurs", and "pennseurs". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "preneurs", "penser", "pensés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is penseurs, spelled P-E-N-S-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de penseur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how penseurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les penseurs africains rejettent la tradition multiséculaire que professaient les auteurs eurocentriques considérant les « indigènes » comme des êtres inférieurs, pétulants, sauvages dans leurs émotions, incapables d’appréhender la culture.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnseurs
- penesurs
- pennseurs
- penserus
- penseurrs
- penseurss
- penseusr
- pensseurs
- pensuers
- pesneurs
- pneseurs
- ppenseurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of penseurs - 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).