cohérence
\kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“cohérence” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,796. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,796
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Union complète entre divers éléments d’un corps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coherence · cohérence · French
cohérence · rank #6,796 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,796
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chic
Nearest frequency peer: chic (-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 « cohérence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- capture
capture
93,208 corpus weight
- caution
caution
93,207 corpus weight
- chic
chic
93,206 corpus weight
- cohérence
cohérence
93,205 corpus weight
- commettre
commettre
93,204 corpus weight
- confédérati…
confédération
93,203 corpus weight
What this shows « cohérence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cohérence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cohérence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around cohérence (IPA \kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,796 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for cohérence, with forms such as "ccohérence", "choérence", and "coherence". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cohérente", "cohérents", "conférence", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cohérence, spelled C-O-H-É-R-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Union complète entre divers éléments d’un corps.
- 2Accord ou harmonie, intuitive ou logique, d'un système d'idées entre elles.
- 3Consistance, absence de contradiction entre des données, des idées ou des informations.
- 4Ensemble des propriétés de corrélation d'un système ondulatoire.
- 5En logique mathématique, la cohérence ou consistance est la propriété d'une théorie exempte de contradiction, ou de façon équivalente, d'une théorie qui possède un modèle.
- 6Capacité pour un système à refléter sur la copie d'une donnée, les modifications intervenues sur d'autres copies de cette donnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cohérence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Néanmoins, il est souvent souhaitable d’en confier la maîtrise d’œuvre totale à un même titulaire pour des raisons de cohérence d’ensemble et de continuité des études.
Dans le passage de l’oral à l’écrit, la spécificité du messager s'efface derrière celle du message. Peut-être y perd-on en spontanéité, mais on y gagne en cohérence, celle précisément d'une forme littéraire.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccohérence
- choérence
- coherence
- cohhérence
- cohréence
- cohéernce
- cohérecne
- cohérencce
- cohérenec
- cohérennce
- cohérnece
- cohérrence
- coéhrence
- ochérence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cohérence - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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