pente
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Inclinaison d’un terrain ; toute déclivité en montée ou en descente.
- 2Inclination ; penchant ; propension ; tendance.
- 3Pièce d’étoffe qui tombe du ciel de lit, du lambrequin ou du bandeau d’une fenêtre.
- 4Partie latérale d’une tente qui pend verticalement.
- 5Coefficient directeur.
- 6Angle de l’axe d’un caractère avec la ligne de base.
- 7Angle que forme la direction de la vitesse d’un aéronef ou d’un véhicule aérospatial avec le plan horizontal local.
- 8Caractérisation d’une fonte par rapport à son inclinaison (et non par rapport à son corps, sa graisse).
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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"
Frequency rank: #6,328 in French
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