audience
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Attention donnée à la personne qui parle.
- 2Réception où l’on admet quelqu’un dans le but de l’écouter.
- 3Réception 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.
- 4Séance d’un tribunal, d’une commission d’enquête, dans laquelle les juges écoutent les débats.
- 5Ceux à qui on donne audience, ou qui assistent à une audience. On dira plutôt auditoire aujourd’hui,
- 6Ensemble des personnes exposées à un média, considéré quantitativement.
- 7Nom de certains tribunaux d’Espagne.
- 8Administration 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"
Frequency rank: #3,592 in French
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