sensées

\sɑ̃.se\

/\sɑ̃.se\/ adj

The verdict

“sensées” is uncommon French (frequency #51,127 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,127
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de sensé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sensees · sensées · French

sensées · rank #51,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,127
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH semper

Nearest frequency peer: semper (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « sensées »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sensées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sensées
PropertyValue
Headwordsensées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sɑ̃.se\
Letters7
Frequency rank#51,127
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sensées » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.senséestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « semper » (#51,126), « sectoriel » (#51,125), « serveuses » (#51,129). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sensées » est au #51,127. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sensées is uncommon French at frequency #51,127 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɑ̃.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de sensé.".

sensées doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sensées, spelled S-E-N-S-É-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de sensé.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sensées"?
"sensées" is spelled S-E-N-S-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃.se\.
What does "sensées" mean?
As an adjective, "sensées" means: Féminin pluriel de sensé.
How do you pronounce "sensées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sensées" is \sɑ̃.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sensées" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sensées", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list