ambiances
\ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s\
The verdict
“ambiances” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,158. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,158
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ambiance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ambiances · ambiances · French
ambiances · rank #22,158 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,158
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH altérer
Nearest frequency peer: altérer (-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 « ambiances »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- alternant
alternant
77,846 corpus weight
- alternative…
alternativement
77,845 corpus weight
- altérer
altérer
77,844 corpus weight
- ambiances
ambiances
77,843 corpus weight
- amusez
amusez
77,842 corpus weight
- amènera
amènera
77,841 corpus weight
What this shows « ambiances » 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 | ambiances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ambiances »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around ambiances (IPA \ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,158 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ambiance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ambiances, with forms such as "abmiances", "ambainces", and "ambbiances". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ambiante", "ambulances", "ambiance", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ambiances, spelled A-M-B-I-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ambiance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ambiances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l’essor du phénomène associatif (loto des pompiers, des musiciens à la Sainte-Cécile, du club du troisième âge, des parents d’élèves, des anciens combattants, des boulistes, de la paroisse, des chasseurs…) atteste de mutations sociales et favorise des ambiances particulières, il montre aussi la permanence des besoins de la communauté.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmiances
- ambainces
- ambbiances
- ambiacnes
- ambiancces
- ambiancess
- ambiancse
- ambianecs
- ambiannces
- ambinaces
- amibances
- ammbiances
- mabiances
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ambiances - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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