relevance
rel·e·vance/ˈɹɛl.ɪ.vən(t)s/noun
relevance is spelled R-E-L-E-V-A-N-C-E, 3 syllables: rel·e·vance. The wrong spelling people search most is relevence: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 217 of all searches for the word. Relevance is a noun meaning “The property or state of being relevant or pertinent”. The plural of relevance is relevances.
How do you spell relevance?
Relevance is spelled R-E-L-E-V-A-N-C-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 137 of the searches for relevance in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does relevance mean?
noun
- 1
The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce relevance?
- /ˈɹɛl.ɪ.vən(t)s/
- /ˈɹɛl.ə.vən(t)s/
Relevance has 3 syllables, split rel·e·vance in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-relevance.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of relevance
- relevances plural
- relevancy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is relevance?
Relevance appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Relevance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense property or state of being relevant, pertinency:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pertinence |
| German | Relevanz, Aktualität, Belang |
| Portuguese | relevância |
| Spanish | relevancia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does relevance come from?
From relevant + -ance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).