pente

/\pɑ̃t\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,328

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

pente is aFrenchnoun. It means: Inclinaison d’un terrain ; toute déclivité en montée ou en descente. Pronounced \pɑ̃t\. It ranks #6,328 in French word frequency. Often confused with pet and peut.

Key facts for pente
PropertyValue
Headwordpente
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɑ̃t\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,328
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pente in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pente is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,328 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for pente, with forms such as "epnte", "penet", and "pennte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pet", "peut", "père", 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, 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 pente, spelled P-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Inclinaison d’un terrain ; toute déclivité en montée ou en descente.
  2. 2
    Inclination ; penchant ; propension ; tendance.
  3. 3
    Pièce d’étoffe qui tombe du ciel de lit, du lambrequin ou du bandeau d’une fenêtre.
  4. 4
    Partie latérale d’une tente qui pend verticalement.
  5. 5
    Coefficient directeur.
  6. 6
    Angle de l’axe d’un caractère avec la ligne de base.
  7. 7
    Angle que forme la direction de la vitesse d’un aéronef ou d’un véhicule aérospatial avec le plan horizontal local.
  8. 8
    Caractérisation d’une fonte par rapport à son inclinaison (et non par rapport à son corps, sa graisse).

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epnte,penet,pennte,pentte,petne,pnete,ppente

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pente

Misspelling Variants of "pente"

epnte5penet5pennte6pentte6petne5pnete5ppente6
Misspelling Variants of "pente"

Frequency rank: #6,328 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pente"?
"pente" is spelled P-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɑ̃t\.
What does "pente" mean?
As a noun, "pente" means: Inclinaison d’un terrain ; toute déclivité en montée ou en descente.
What words are commonly confused with "pente"?
"pente" is commonly confused with "pet", "peut", "père". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pente" is \pɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pente" come from?
"pente" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.