audience
/ˈɔː.di.əns/
"audience" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“audience” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #1,888 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,888
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.
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 | audience |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɔː.di.əns/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “audience” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for audience is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɔː.di.əns/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,888 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for audience, with forms such as "aduience", "auddience", and "audeince". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ambience", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiēns (“hearing”), from verb audiō (“to hear”). Doublet of audiencia. The correct English form is audience, spelled A-U-D-I-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.
- 2Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening.
- 3A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
- 4A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
- 5The readership of a book or other written publication.
- 6A following.
- 7An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.
Etymology
From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiēns (“hearing”), from verb audiō (“to hear”). Doublet of audiencia.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aduience,auddience,audeince,audiance,audiecne,audiencce,audienec,audiennce,audinece,auidence,uadience
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of audience - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “audience”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-U-D-I-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɔː.di.əns/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ambience” - see the side-by-side comparison. audience vs ambience
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.