sens commun
\sɑ̃s kɔ.mœ̃\
The verdict
“sens commun” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faculté par laquelle la plupart des hommes jugent naturellement des choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sens-commun · sens commun · French
sens commun · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 | sens commun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃s kɔ.mœ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sens commun » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sens commun is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃s kɔ.mœ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faculté par laquelle la plupart des hommes jugent naturellement des choses.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sens commun, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sens commun, spelled S-E-N-S- -C-O-M-M-U-N.
Definition
- 1Faculté par laquelle la plupart des hommes jugent naturellement des choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sens commun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les circonvolutions fallacieuses de son argumentation dépassent le sens commun.
Je balbutiai quelques paroles vagues de reconnaissance et de politesse qui n’avaient pas le sens commun probablement, car il ne les écouta pas, et s’assit sur un banc, me tenant une main.
This word in other languages
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.