pente

\pɑ̃t\

/\pɑ̃t\/ noun

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The verdict

“pente” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,328. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,328
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inclinaison d’un terrain ; toute déclivité en montée ou en descente.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pente · pente · French

pente · rank #6,328 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,328
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH peintures

Nearest frequency peer: peintures (-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 « pente »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pente » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pente vs pet
60% similar
pente vs peut
60% similar
pente vs père
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pente »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pentese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « peintures » (#6,327), « permission » (#6,329), « parallèlement » (#6,326). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pente » est au #6,328. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around pente (IPA \pɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,328 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pente, with forms such as "epnte", "penet", and "pennte". 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, "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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pente, spelled P-E-N-T-E.

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).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le capital sympathie associé au vautour fauve ne menace pas vraiment la popularité de l’ours brun ou du pottock (le poney basque), pour ne parler que des animaux des pentes pyrénéennes.
  2. Les pentes vertes du mont San Giachinno, au Sud de l’île, contrastaient étrangement avec la partie Nord [sic], hérissée de petits cônes volcaniques et presque entièrement dépourvue de végétation.

Synonyms

escarpementcôteversantdéclive

This word in other languages

slope(English)pendiente(Español)Neigung(Deutsch)ladeira(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • epnte
  • penet
  • pennte
  • pentte
  • petne
  • pnete
  • ppente

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pente - 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.

epnte2penet2pennte1pentte1petne2pnete2ppente1
Edit distance from "pente"

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.

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. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pente", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

saisie7 variantsfiable7 variantsdormi7 variantscoller7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list