banc
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,468
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
banc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Long siège permettant d’accueillir plus d’une personne. Pronounced \bɑ̃\. It ranks #4,468 in French word frequency. Often confused with BC and BN.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for banc is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,468 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for banc, with forms such as "abnc", "bacn", and "bancc". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BC", "BN", "bon", and more, 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 banc, spelled B-A-N-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Long siège permettant d’accueillir plus d’une personne.
- 2Bancs de l’école, sur lesquels s’assoient les élèves dans les écoles.
- 3Banc d’église , comportant souvent un dossier et un agenouilloir, sur lequel s’assoient les fidèles pendant l'office.
- 4Siège occupé par une personne dans une assemblée.
- 5Amas de sable, de vase, de glace ou de certaines espèces de calcaires qui forment les écueils.
- 6Grande quantité de poissons de la même espèce voyageant ensemble.
- 7Chaque lit, chaque assise naturelle de pierre, dans une carrière.
- 8Tout assemblage de montants ou de traverses servant à tel ou tel usage, en particulier pour des tests.
- 9Étal.
- 10Banc où sont assis les remplaçants d’un match, ou ensemble de ces remplaçants.
- 11Emplacement réservé à un groupe dans une assemblée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abnc,bacn,bancc,bannc,bbanc,bnac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for banc
Misspelling Variants of "banc"
Frequency rank: #4,468 in French
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Nearby French words
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