adolescence
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,268
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
adolescence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Période de la vie comprise entre le moment où l’être humain entre dans la puberté et le moment où il atteint la majorité civile, où il sera alors considéré comme un adulte. Pronounced \a.dɔ.lɛ.sɑ̃s\. It ranks #7,268 in French word frequency. Often confused with adolescent and adolescents.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adolescence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.dɔ.lɛ.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for adolescence is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.dɔ.lɛ.sɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,268 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for adolescence, with forms such as "addolescence", "adloescence", and "adoelscence". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "adolescent", "adolescents", "adolescente", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is adolescence, spelled A-D-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Période de la vie comprise entre le moment où l’être humain entre dans la puberté et le moment où il atteint la majorité civile, où il sera alors considéré comme un adulte.
- 2Les premiers temps.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addolescence,adloescence,adoelscence,adolecsence,adolesccence,adolescecne,adolescencce,adolescenec,adolescennce,adolescnece,adolesecnce,adolesscence,adollescence,adolsecence,aodlescence,daolescence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adolescence
Misspelling Variants of "adolescence"
Frequency rank: #7,268 in French
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