pensez
\pɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“pensez” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,782. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,782
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de penser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensez · pensez · French
pensez · rank #1,782 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,782
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patrimoine
Nearest frequency peer: patrimoine (-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 « pensez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mondial
mondial
98,222 corpus weight
- obligé
obligé
98,221 corpus weight
- patrimoine
patrimoine
98,220 corpus weight
- pensez
pensez
98,219 corpus weight
- phase
phase
98,218 corpus weight
- publiques
publiques
98,217 corpus weight
What this shows « pensez » 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 | pensez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pensez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pensez (IPA \pɑ̃.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,782 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pensez, with forms such as "epnsez", "penesz", and "pennsez". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pente", "posez", "peser", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pensez, spelled P-E-N-S-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de penser.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de penser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pensez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Non, mais vous pensez peut-être qu’un beau jour, je pourrais vous débaculer de la tête de la compagnie ?
Moi, je n’ai pas encore allumé mon feu. Vous pensez !…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnsez
- penesz
- pennsez
- pensezz
- penssez
- pensze
- pesnez
- pnesez
- ppensez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pensez - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pensez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).