pesante
\pə.zɑ̃t\
The verdict
“pesante” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,668. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,668
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de pesant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pesante · pesante · French
pesante · rank #34,668 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,668
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH personnalisées
Nearest frequency peer: personnalisées (-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 « pesante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pensés
pensés
65,336 corpus weight
- percés
percés
65,335 corpus weight
- personnalis…
personnalisées
65,334 corpus weight
- pesante
pesante
65,333 corpus weight
- pF
pF
65,332 corpus weight
- photons
photons
65,331 corpus weight
What this shows « pesante » 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 | pesante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pə.zɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pesante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pesante (IPA \pə.zɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,668 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de pesant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pesante, with forms such as "epsante", "peasnte", and "pesanet". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plante", "posant", "pèsent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pesante, spelled P-E-S-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de pesant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pesante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après Ronsard, qui voulut créer une langue riche et noble; après Malherbe, qui prétendit dégasconner la cour; après les précieuses, qui se vantèrent de nous avoir dévulgarisés, Scarron n’a pas d’autre ambition que de nous défaire de l’affectation gourmée et pesante, de nous décatoniser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsante
- peasnte
- pesanet
- pesannte
- pesantte
- pesatne
- pesnate
- pessante
- ppesante
- pseante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pesante - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).