assurance
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,505
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
assurance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Certitude. Pronounced \a.sy.ʁɑ̃s\. It ranks #1,505 in French word frequency. Often confused with assurant and assurances.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assurance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sy.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for assurance is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sy.ʁɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,505 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for assurance, with forms such as "assruance", "assuarnce", and "assuracne". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "assurant", "assurances", 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 assurance, spelled A-S-S-U-R-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Certitude.
- 2Confiance.
- 3Confiance en soi-même.
- 4Ensemble de paroles, de promesses, de protestations par lesquelles on s’efforce de donner à une personne la certitude de quelque chose, ou de lui inspirer de la confiance.
- 5Hardiesse.
- 6Sûreté ; état où l’on est hors de péril.
- 7Promesse, obligation nantissement, etc., qu’on donne pour servir de sûreté à quelqu’un avec qui l’on traite.
- 8Contrat par lequel on garantit contre certains risques sa personne ou son bien, ou par lequel, à de certaines conditions, on assure à soi ou à d’autres le paiement d’une somme convenue.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: assruance,assuarnce,assuracne,assurancce,assuranec,assurannce,assurnace,assurrance,asurance,asusrance,sasurance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for assurance
Misspelling Variants of "assurance"
Frequency rank: #1,505 in French
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