absences
\ap.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“absences” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,529
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de absence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-absences · absences · French
absences · rank #16,529 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,529
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aboutissement
Nearest frequency peer: aboutissement (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « absences »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abandonnent
abandonnent
83,475 corpus weight
- abattoir
abattoir
83,474 corpus weight
- aboutisseme…
aboutissement
83,473 corpus weight
- absences
absences
83,472 corpus weight
- acceptées
acceptées
83,471 corpus weight
- accordées
accordées
83,470 corpus weight
What this shows « absences » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | absences |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ap.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « absences »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around absences (IPA \ap.sɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,529 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de absence.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for absences, with forms such as "abbsences", "abesnces", and "absecnes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "absents", "absenter", "absence", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is absences, spelled A-B-S-E-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de absence.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbsences
- abesnces
- absecnes
- absencces
- absencess
- absencse
- absenecs
- absennces
- absneces
- abssences
- asbences
- basences
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of absences - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).