assurance

/\a.sy.ʁɑ̃s\/ noun

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.

Key facts for assurance
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Headwordassurance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.sy.ʁɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,505
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of assurance in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Certitude.
  2. 2
    Confiance.
  3. 3
    Confiance en soi-même.
  4. 4
    Ensemble 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.
  5. 5
    Hardiesse.
  6. 6
    Sûreté ; état où l’on est hors de péril.
  7. 7
    Promesse, obligation nantissement, etc., qu’on donne pour servir de sûreté à quelqu’un avec qui l’on traite.
  8. 8
    Contrat 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.

Synonyms

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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"

assruance9assuarnce9assuracne9assurancce10assuranec9assurannce10assurnace9assurrance10
Misspelling Variants of "assurance"

Frequency rank: #1,505 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "assurance"?
"assurance" is spelled A-S-S-U-R-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sy.ʁɑ̃s\.
What does "assurance" mean?
As a noun, "assurance" means: Certitude.
What words are commonly confused with "assurance"?
"assurance" is commonly confused with "assurant", "assurances". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "assurance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assurance" is \a.sy.ʁɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assurance" come from?
"assurance" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.