attirance

\a.ti.ʁɑ̃s\

/\a.ti.ʁɑ̃s\/ noun

The verdict

“attirance” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,069. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,069
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Charme particulier de certaines choses ou de certains êtres qui attire à eux les gens ou les bêtes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-attirance · attirance · French

attirance · rank #16,069 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,069
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH arrogant

Nearest frequency peer: arrogant (-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 « attirance »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « attirance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

attirance vs attirant
78% similar
attirance vs attirante
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for attirance
PropertyValue
Headwordattirance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ti.ʁɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#16,069
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attirance »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.attirancese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « arrogant » (#16,068), « Auchan » (#16,070), « Armstrong » (#16,067). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « attirance » est au #16,069. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around attirance (IPA \a.ti.ʁɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,069 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Charme particulier de certaines choses ou de certains êtres qui attire à eux les gens ou les bêtes.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for attirance, with forms such as "atirance", "atitrance", and "attiarnce". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "attirant", "attirante", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is attirance, spelled A-T-T-I-R-A-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Charme particulier de certaines choses ou de certains êtres qui attire à eux les gens ou les bêtes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how attirance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’attirance de la mer.
  2. L’attirance d’un maître.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atirance
  • atitrance
  • attiarnce
  • attiracne
  • attirancce
  • attiranec
  • attirannce
  • attirnace
  • attirrance
  • attriance
  • tatirance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attirance - 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.

atirance1atitrance2attiarnce2attiracne2attirancce1attiranec2attirannce1attirnace2
Edit distance from "attirance"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "attirance"?
"attirance" is spelled A-T-T-I-R-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ti.ʁɑ̃s\.
What does "attirance" mean?
As a noun, "attirance" means: Charme particulier de certaines choses ou de certains êtres qui attire à eux les gens ou les bêtes.
What words are commonly confused with "attirance"?
"attirance" is commonly confused with "attirant", "attirante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attirance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attirance" is \a.ti.ʁɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attirance" come from?
"attirance" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "attirance", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list