pensif
\pɑ̃.sif\
The verdict
“pensif” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,509. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,509
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est occupé d’une pensée qui l’attache fortement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensif · pensif · French
pensif · rank #47,509 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,509
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH penseras
Nearest frequency peer: penseras (-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 « pensif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pendentifs
pendentifs
52,495 corpus weight
- penseras
penseras
52,493 corpus weight
- pensif
pensif
52,492 corpus weight
- percement
percement
52,491 corpus weight
- Petersen
Petersen
52,490 corpus weight
- Peuls
Peuls
52,488 corpus weight
What this shows « pensif » 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 | pensif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.sif\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pensif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pensif (IPA \pɑ̃.sif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,509 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est occupé d’une pensée qui l’attache fortement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pensif, with forms such as "epnsif", "penisf", and "pennsif". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Pepsi", "persil", "pension", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 pensif, spelled P-E-N-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui est occupé d’une pensée qui l’attache fortement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pensif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers la fin du mois de mai 1825, Lucien avait perdu toute sa vivacité ; il se sortait plus, dînait avec Herrera, demeurait pensif, travaillait, lisait la collection des traités diplomatiques, restait assis à la turque sur un divan et fumait trois ou quatre houka par jour.
L’intendant de police resta un instant pensif, puis il reprit brusquement : – Que pensez-vous de tout ceci, James ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnsif
- penisf
- pennsif
- pensfi
- pensiff
- penssif
- pesnif
- pnesif
- ppensif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pensif - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).