# trance

> English word · Noun · IPA /tɹɑːns/ · frequency rank #15,296

## Definitions
1. A dazed or unconscious condition.
2. A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
3. A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
4. Ellipsis of trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).

## Etymology
From Middle English traunce, from Anglo-Norman transe (“fear of coming evil; passage from life to death”), from transir (“to be numb with fear; to die, pass on”), from Latin trānseō (“to cross over”).

## Easily confused with
- **trans** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trance-vs-trans)
- **truce** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trance-vs-truce)
- **trench** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trance-vs-trench)
- **tranny** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trance-vs-tranny)
- **Tran** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tran-vs-trance)
- **trade** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trade-vs-trance)
- **track** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/track-vs-trance)
- **trace** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trace-vs-trance)
- **Tracy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracy-vs-trance)
- **tract** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tract-vs-trance)
- **thane** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thane-vs-trance)
- **traces** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/traces-vs-trance)
- **traced** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/traced-vs-trance)
- **Tracey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracey-vs-trance)
- **tracer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tracer-vs-trance)
- **thence** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thence-vs-trance)
- **Thrace** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrace-vs-trance)
- **trainee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trainee-vs-trance)
- **Terence** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/terence-vs-trance)

## Common misspellings (10)
`rtance`, `tarnce`, `tracne`, `trancce`, `tranec`, `trannce`, `trence`, `trnace`, `trrance`, `ttrance`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/trance