pensions
\pɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“pensions” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,608
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pension.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensions · pensions · French
pensions · rank #7,608 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,608
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peindre
Nearest frequency peer: peindre (-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 « pensions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- palestiniens
palestiniens
92,396 corpus weight
- peindre
peindre
92,394 corpus weight
- pensions
pensions
92,393 corpus weight
- perçu
perçu
92,392 corpus weight
- philosophiq…
philosophique
92,391 corpus weight
- proposées
proposées
92,390 corpus weight
What this shows « pensions » 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 | pensions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pensions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pensions (IPA \pɑ̃.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,608 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pension.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pensions, with forms such as "epnsions", "penisons", and "pennsions". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "pensons", "pulsions", "prenions", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 pensions, spelled P-E-N-S-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pension.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pensions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les économies, les pensions, les retraites, les promesses des politiques, les pensions du gouvernement, les assurances privées, les assurances vie, les retraites versées par les syndicats de gauche ou les multinationales de droite ne servent à rien, comme les tas d’écus de notre fable.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnsions
- penisons
- pennsions
- pensinos
- pensionns
- pensionss
- pensiosn
- pensoins
- penssions
- pesnions
- pnesions
- ppensions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pensions - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).