consonance
/ˈkɑn.sə.nəns/
"consonance" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“consonance” is uncommon English (frequency #87,163 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,163
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A form of rhyme having the same consonants but different vowels.
Corpus desk
Index EN-consonance · consonance · English
consonance · rank #87,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,163
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH constitutiona…
Nearest frequency peer: constitutionalist (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “consonance”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- colorfully
colorfully
12,846 corpus weight
- consigliere
consigliere
12,840 corpus weight
- consonance
consonance
12,838 corpus weight
- constitutio…
constitutionalist
12,837 corpus weight
- coronas
coronas
12,834 corpus weight
- corroding
corroding
12,832 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “consonance” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | consonance |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɑn.sə.nəns/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “consonance” in English
Rare enough to double-check
consonance is uncommon English at frequency #87,163 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɑn.sə.nəns/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for consonance, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English consonance, from Middle French consonance, from Latin cōnsonantia. Doublet of consonancy. By surface analysis, con- + son- + -ance. The correct English form is consonance, spelled C-O-N-S-O-N-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1A form of rhyme having the same consonants but different vowels.
- 2Harmony; agreement; absence of discordance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how consonance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Like a musical string, the optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance, while it refuses to be excited by others of almost infinitely greater energy, whose period of recurrence are not in unison with its own.
Etymology
From Middle English consonance, from Middle French consonance, from Latin cōnsonantia. Doublet of consonancy. By surface analysis, con- + son- + -ance.
Antonyms
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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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