pensiez
\pɑ̃.sje\
The verdict
“pensiez” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,073. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,073
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de penser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensiez · pensiez · French
pensiez · rank #25,073 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,073
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH partners
Nearest frequency peer: partners (-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 « pensiez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- papilles
papilles
74,931 corpus weight
- paroxysme
paroxysme
74,930 corpus weight
- partners
partners
74,929 corpus weight
- pensiez
pensiez
74,928 corpus weight
- perdons
perdons
74,927 corpus weight
- piraterie
piraterie
74,926 corpus weight
What this shows « pensiez » 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 | pensiez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.sje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pensiez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pensiez (IPA \pɑ̃.sje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,073 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pensiez, with forms such as "epnsiez", "penisez", and "pennsiez". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "pensif", "pension", "preniez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 pensiez, spelled P-E-N-S-I-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de penser.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de penser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pensiez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous pensiez avoir trouvé le réconfort ultime contre l’inflation, la météo pourrie et les guerres dans le monde : une bonne raclette, le plat antidéprime par excellence.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnsiez
- penisez
- pennsiez
- penseiz
- pensiezz
- pensize
- penssiez
- pesniez
- pnesiez
- ppensiez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pensiez - 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 "pensiez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).