pensive
\pɑ̃.siv\
The verdict
“pensive” is uncommon French (frequency #61,021 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,021
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de pensif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensive · pensive · French
pensive · rank #61,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,021
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pensantes
Nearest frequency peer: pensantes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pensive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paw
paw
38,984 corpus weight
- paysagers
paysagers
38,983 corpus weight
- penaud
penaud
38,982 corpus weight
- pensantes
pensantes
38,981 corpus weight
- pensive
pensive
38,980 corpus weight
- peptides
peptides
38,978 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pensive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pensive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.siv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pensive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pensive is uncommon French at frequency #61,021 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɑ̃.siv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de pensif.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pensive, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pensive, spelled P-E-N-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de pensif.
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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