condescendance
\kɔ̃.de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃s\
The verdict
“condescendance” has 22 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,307. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,307
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Complaisance qui fait qu’on se rend aux sentiments, aux volontés de quelqu’un. Mais depuis le XIXᵉ siècle, le sens a glissé vers la 2ᵉ définition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-condescendance · condescendance · French
condescendance · rank #26,307 · 22 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #26,307
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH composites
Nearest frequency peer: composites (-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 « condescendance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- compatis
compatis
73,696 corpus weight
- composites
composites
73,695 corpus weight
- condescenda…
condescendance
73,694 corpus weight
- conduisit
conduisit
73,693 corpus weight
- confident
confident
73,692 corpus weight
- confidentie…
confidentiels
73,691 corpus weight
What this shows « condescendance » 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 | condescendance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #26,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « condescendance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around condescendance (IPA \kɔ̃.de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,307 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for condescendance, with forms such as "ccondescendance", "cnodescendance", and "codnescendance". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "condescendant", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is condescendance, spelled C-O-N-D-E-S-C-E-N-D-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Complaisance qui fait qu’on se rend aux sentiments, aux volontés de quelqu’un. Mais depuis le XIXᵉ siècle, le sens a glissé vers la 2ᵉ définition.
- 2Bienveillance mêlée d’un léger mépris ; comportement distant, presque hautain, arrogant, ou qui pourrait être ressenti comme tel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how condescendance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mme de Rênal s’était trouvée assez de sens pour oublier bientôt, comme absurde, tout ce qu’elle avait appris au couvent ; […] Avec l’apparence de la condescendance la plus parfaite, et d’une abnégation de volonté, que les maris de Verrières citaient en exemple à leurs femmes, et qui faisait l’orgueil de M. de Rênal, la conduite habituelle de son âme était…
[…], je vais vous remettre les deux lignes ; vous les porterez au grand homme en l’assurant d’une entière condescendance à ses désirs ; mais à une condition.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccondescendance
- cnodescendance
- codnescendance
- conddescendance
- condecsendance
- condesccendance
- condescednance
- condescenadnce
- condescendacne
- condescendancce
- condescendanec
- condescendannce
- condescenddance
- condescendnace
- condescenndance
- condescnedance
- condesecndance
- condesscendance
- condsecendance
- conedscendance
- conndescendance
- ocndescendance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of condescendance - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).