audience

/\o.djɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,592

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

audience is aFrenchnoun. It means: Attention donnée à la personne qui parle. Pronounced \o.djɑ̃s\. It ranks #3,592 in French word frequency. Often confused with audiences.

Key facts for audience
PropertyValue
Headwordaudience
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.djɑ̃s\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,592
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for audience is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.djɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,592 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for audience, with forms such as "aduience", "auddience", and "audeince". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "audiences", 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 audience, spelled A-U-D-I-E-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
    Attention donnée à la personne qui parle.
  2. 2
    Réception où l’on admet quelqu’un dans le but de l’écouter.
  3. 3
    Réception d'un ambassadeur par les autorités politiques du pays dans lequel il est en poste dans un but de courtoisie ou afin de soulever un point de politique étrangère. L'acceptation d'une audience par les autorités politiques donne lieu à la préparation d'un dossier d'audience en ambassade afin de préparer l'ambassadeur. Au terme de l'audience, un rapport est rédigé.
  4. 4
    Séance d’un tribunal, d’une commission d’enquête, dans laquelle les juges écoutent les débats.
  5. 5
    Ceux à qui on donne audience, ou qui assistent à une audience. On dira plutôt auditoire aujourd’hui,
  6. 6
    Ensemble des personnes exposées à un média, considéré quantitativement.
  7. 7
    Nom de certains tribunaux d’Espagne.
  8. 8
    Administration qui résidait dans les colonies espagnoles ou, par extension, les provinces gouvernées par ces administrations.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aduience,auddience,audeince,audiecne,audiencce,audienec,audiennce,audinece,auidence,uadience

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for audience

Misspelling Variants of "audience"

aduience8auddience9audeince8audiecne8audiencce9audienec8audiennce9audinece8
Misspelling Variants of "audience"

Frequency rank: #3,592 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "audience"?
"audience" is spelled A-U-D-I-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.djɑ̃s\.
What does "audience" mean?
As a noun, "audience" means: Attention donnée à la personne qui parle.
What words are commonly confused with "audience"?
"audience" is commonly confused with "audiences". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "audience"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "audience" is \o.djɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "audience" come from?
"audience" 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.