pensionnaires
\pɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“pensionnaires” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,811. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,811
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pensionnaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensionnaires · pensionnaires · French
pensionnaires · rank #20,811 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,811
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patronales
Nearest frequency peer: patronales (-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 « pensionnaires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parer
parer
79,193 corpus weight
- paritaire
paritaire
79,192 corpus weight
- patronales
patronales
79,191 corpus weight
- pensionnair…
pensionnaires
79,190 corpus weight
- percuté
percuté
79,189 corpus weight
- perpétuer
perpétuer
79,188 corpus weight
What this shows « pensionnaires » 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 | pensionnaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #20,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pensionnaires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around pensionnaires (IPA \pɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,811 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pensionnaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for pensionnaires, with forms such as "epnsionnaires", "penisonnaires", and "pennsionnaires". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pensionnaire", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pensionnaires, spelled P-E-N-S-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pensionnaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pensionnaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle presse sa main sur sa bouche pour étouffer un rire aigu, et part dans un nuage de parfum de supermarché qui masque furtivement l’odeur formolée du couloir où traînent les pantoufles fatiguées des pensionnaires encore valides.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnsionnaires
- penisonnaires
- pennsionnaires
- pensinonaires
- pensionaires
- pensionanires
- pensionnaiers
- pensionnairess
- pensionnairres
- pensionnairse
- pensionnaries
- pensionniares
- pensoinnaires
- penssionnaires
- pesnionnaires
- pnesionnaires
- ppensionnaires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pensionnaires - 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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).