sense
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,539
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sense is aFrenchverb. It means: Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de sensen. Pronounced \ˈzɛnzə\. Often confused with ses and SSE.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sense |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈzɛnzə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sense is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈzɛnzə\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,539 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for sense, with forms such as "esnse", "senes", and "sennse". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ses", "SSE", "sexe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sense, spelled S-E-N-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de sensen.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de sensen.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de sensen.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent I de sensen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esnse,senes,sennse,sensse,sesne,snese,ssense
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sense
Misspelling Variants of "sense"
Frequency rank: #29,539 in French
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Nearby French words
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