pensionnaire
The verdict
“pensionnaire” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #21,419 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #21,419
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Celui ou celle qui paie pension.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pensionnaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #21,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pensionnaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pensionnaire is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,419 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for pensionnaire, with forms such as "epnsionnaire", "penisonnaire", and "pennsionnaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pensionnaires", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pensionnaire, spelled P-E-N-S-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui ou celle qui paie pension.
- 2Animal mis par son propriétaire en élevage chez un éleveur, moyennant le paiement d'une pension.
- 3Celui ou celle qui, moyennant un prix convenu, loge dans une école, un collège, un lycée pour y être instruit.
- 4Prostituée exerçant dans une maison close.
- 5Celui ou celle qui reçoit une pension d’un État, d’une société, etc.
- 6Comédien de la Comédie française qui ne participe pas aux bénéfices de la société et qui reçoit un traitement fixe.
- 7Titre qu’on donnait, en Hollande, au premier ministre des États, ainsi qu’au ministre de la régence de chaque ville.
- 8Cheval de course considéré relativement à son écurie ou son entraîneur.
Antonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epnsionnaire,penisonnaire,pennsionnaire,pensinonaire,pensionaire,pensionanire,pensionnaier,pensionnairre,pensionnarie,pensionniare,pensoinnaire,penssionnaire,pesnionnaire,pnesionnaire,ppensionnaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pensionnaire — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "pensionnaire"
Frequency rank: #21,419 in French
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Using “pensionnaire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-N-S-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “pensionnaires” — see the side-by-side comparison. pensionnaire vs pensionnaires
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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