audience

Name: audience, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
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\o.djɑ̃s\

/\o.djɑ̃s\/ noun

By PlainSpell Editorial Team · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“audience” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,592 in French word frequency and used as a noun.

#3,592
frequency rank, French: 8
letters: 10
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Attention donnée à la personne qui parle.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

audience vs audiences

89% similar

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

Key facts for audience
Property	Value
Headword	audience
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\o.djɑ̃s\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#3,592
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “audience” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). audience lands here:

#3,592

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for audience is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for audience, with forms such as "aduience", "auddience", and "audeince". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "audiences", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is audience, spelled A-U-D-I-E-N-C-E.

Definition

1
Attention donnée à la personne qui parle.
2
Réception où l’on admet quelqu’un dans le but de l’écouter.
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
Séance d’un tribunal, d’une commission d’enquête, dans laquelle les juges écoutent les débats.
5
Ceux à qui on donne audience, ou qui assistent à une audience. On dira plutôt auditoire aujourd’hui,
6
Ensemble des personnes exposées à un média, considéré quantitativement.
7
Nom de certains tribunaux d’Espagne.
8
Administration qui résidait dans les colonies espagnoles ou, par extension, les provinces gouvernées par ces administrations.

This word in other languages

hearing(English)audiencia(Español)Aufmerksamkeit(Deutsch)audiência(Português)

Common misspellings

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

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of audience - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "audience"

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 "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?

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Using “audience”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct French spelling is A-U-D-I-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Say it as \o.djɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
Don't mix it up with “audiences” - see the side-by-side comparison. audience vs audiences
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.