pentes
\pɑ̃t\
The verdict
“pentes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,832
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pentes · pentes · French
pentes · rank #12,832 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,832
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passants
Nearest frequency peer: passants (-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 « pentes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Orsay
Orsay
87,172 corpus weight
- panthéon
panthéon
87,171 corpus weight
- passants
passants
87,170 corpus weight
- pentes
pentes
87,169 corpus weight
- pick
pick
87,168 corpus weight
- pivot
pivot
87,167 corpus weight
What this shows « pentes » 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 | pentes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pentes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pentes (IPA \pɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,832 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pente.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pentes, with forms such as "epntes", "penets", and "penntes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pète", "pets", "perte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pentes, spelled P-E-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pentes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fortrait, morfondu, mon cheval glissait à chaque pas et s’abattait sur les pentes verglacées.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epntes
- penets
- penntes
- pentess
- pentse
- penttes
- petnes
- pnetes
- ppentes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pentes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pentes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).