pensons
\pɑ̃.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“pensons” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,985. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,985
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de penser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pensons · pensons · French
pensons · rank #6,985 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,985
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH organisés
Nearest frequency peer: organisés (-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 « pensons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nobel
nobel
93,019 corpus weight
- organisées
organisées
93,018 corpus weight
- organisés
organisés
93,017 corpus weight
- pensons
pensons
93,016 corpus weight
- posséder
posséder
93,015 corpus weight
- power
power
93,014 corpus weight
What this shows « pensons » 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 | pensons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pensons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around pensons (IPA \pɑ̃.sɔ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,985 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pensons, with forms such as "epnsons", "pennsons", and "penosns". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pesos", "persos", "Person", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pensons, spelled P-E-N-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de penser.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de penser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pensons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais quand on se trouve en présence de dyspeptiques qui sans se désalimenter complètement ne font que se nourrir depuis longtemps de manière insuffisante, nous pensons qu’il y a intérêt à agir de tout autre manière.
Il est, ni plus ni moins, envisagé de (risquons ce néologisme) se stellariser, entrer dans la catégorie des étoiles (pensons à Rameau), non pour y briller soi-même, mais pour que l’œuvre participe à sa façon et par son poids, par son movimentum, au fonctionnement universel - ce qui exige la traversée (car Ponge file avec soin la métaphore) de deux états o…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnsons
- pennsons
- penosns
- pensnos
- pensonns
- pensonss
- pensosn
- penssons
- pesnons
- pnesons
- ppensons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pensons - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).