pondu
\pɔn.dy\
The verdict
“pondu” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,311
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feuille de manioc
Corpus desk
Index FR-pondu · pondu · French
pondu · rank #30,311 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,311
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ponctuels
Nearest frequency peer: ponctuels (-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 « pondu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pollué
pollué
69,693 corpus weight
- ponce
ponce
69,692 corpus weight
- ponctuels
ponctuels
69,691 corpus weight
- pondu
pondu
69,690 corpus weight
- portfolio
portfolio
69,689 corpus weight
- possesseur
possesseur
69,688 corpus weight
What this shows « pondu » 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 | pondu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔn.dy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pondu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around pondu (IPA \pɔn.dy\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,311 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pondu, with forms such as "opndu", "pnodu", and "podnu". 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, "pou", "pont", "pons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pondu, spelled P-O-N-D-U.
Definition
- 1Feuille de manioc
- 2Bouillon de feuilles de manioc préparé avec de l’huile de palme, originaire d’Afrique centrale, consommé avec du manioc, du pain, de la banane plantain frite, de l’igname, du riz, et du poisson ou de la viande
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pondu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a pas l’enseignement qui l’enchante, mais aussi l’alimentation : « Au Brésil, i y a le riz, le haricot, le pondu, le manioc, il y a tout, c’est un peu comme chez moi ».
Le concours de la meilleure recette du pondu, à Kinshasa, se déroule depuis le 16 octobre et va se poursuivre jusqu’au 31 octobre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opndu
- pnodu
- podnu
- ponddu
- ponndu
- ponud
- ppondu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pondu - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).