se pendre
\sə pɑ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“se pendre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme pronominale de pendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-pendre · se pendre · French
se pendre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se pendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə pɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « se pendre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
se pendre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə pɑ̃dʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme pronominale de pendre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for se pendre in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is se pendre, spelled S-E- -P-E-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Forme pronominale de pendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how se pendre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En tarologie, la mort est représentée par l’Arcane XIII qui poussa Gérard de Nerval à se pendre ; cet arcane signifie mort et transformation, pour Serge Marcotoune : « […] ».
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.