sensu
\ˈsɛn.su\
The verdict
“sensu” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,464
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sensu · sensu · French
sensu · rank #33,464 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,464
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH September
Nearest frequency peer: September (+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 « sensu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- satisfaisan…
satisfaisants
66,540 corpus weight
- sculptée
sculptée
66,539 corpus weight
- sensu
sensu
66,537 corpus weight
- September
September
66,536 corpus weight
- siphon
siphon
66,535 corpus weight
- sketches
sketches
66,534 corpus weight
What this shows « sensu » 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 | sensu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsɛn.su\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sensu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around sensu (IPA \ˈsɛn.su\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,464 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sens.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sensu, with forms such as "esnsu", "sennsu", and "senssu". 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, "ses", "seu", "sent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 sensu, spelled S-E-N-S-U.
Definition
- 1Sens.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esnsu
- sennsu
- senssu
- senus
- sesnu
- snesu
- ssensu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sensu - 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).