confiance

/\kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#578

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

confiance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sentiment de sécurité vis-à-vis de quelqu’un ou quelque chose. Pronounced \kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\. It ranks #578 in French word frequency. Often confused with confine and confiant.

Key facts for confiance
PropertyValue
Headwordconfiance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#578
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of confiance in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for confiance is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #578 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for confiance, with forms such as "cconfiance", "cnofiance", and "cofniance". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "confine", "confiant", "confinée", 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 confiance, spelled C-O-N-F-I-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sentiment de sécurité vis-à-vis de quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Assurance, hardiesse.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconfiance,cnofiance,cofniance,confaince,conffiance,confiacne,confiancce,confianec,confiannce,confinace,conifance,connfiance,ocnfiance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for confiance

Misspelling Variants of "confiance"

cconfiance10cnofiance9cofniance9confaince9conffiance10confiacne9confiancce10confianec9
Misspelling Variants of "confiance"

Frequency rank: #578 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "confiance"?
"confiance" is spelled C-O-N-F-I-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\.
What does "confiance" mean?
As a noun, "confiance" means: Sentiment de sécurité vis-à-vis de quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "confiance"?
"confiance" is commonly confused with "confine", "confiant", "confinée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "confiance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "confiance" is \kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "confiance" come from?
"confiance" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.