romance
/rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/
"romance" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“romance” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,188
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
Corpus desk
Index EN-romance · romance · English
romance · rank #4,188 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,188
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rick
Nearest frequency peer: rick (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “romance”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- registration
registration
95,816 corpus weight
- rick
rick
95,814 corpus weight
- romance
romance
95,813 corpus weight
- someone's
someone's
95,812 corpus weight
- submitted
submitted
95,811 corpus weight
- sufficient
sufficient
95,810 corpus weight
What this shows “romance” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | romance |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “romance”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around romance (IPA /rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,188 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for romance, with forms such as "ormance", "rmoance", and "roamnce". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Romans", "romano", "Romani", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmān… The correct English form is romance, spelled R-O-M-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- 2A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- 3Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
- 4A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
- 5A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- 6A tale of high adventure.
- 7A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- 8A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
- 9An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- 10An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- 11A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
- 12A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how romance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Everybody's working for the weekend Everybody wants a new romance.
`Will you undertake the task? We give you complete freedom, and as a reward you will, we believe, have the credit of presenting to the world the most wonderful history, as distinguished from romance, that its records can show.'
Etymology
From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ormance
- rmoance
- roamnce
- romacne
- romancce
- romanec
- romannce
- romence
- rommance
- romnace
- rromance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of romance - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).