confiance
\kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\
The verdict
“confiance” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #578. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #578
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sentiment de sécurité vis-à-vis de quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confiance · confiance · French
confiance · rank #578 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #578
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chance
Nearest frequency peer: chance (-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 « confiance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- armée
armée
99,426 corpus weight
- bois
bois
99,425 corpus weight
- chance
chance
99,424 corpus weight
- confiance
confiance
99,423 corpus weight
- croire
croire
99,422 corpus weight
- Date
Date
99,421 corpus weight
What this shows « confiance » 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 | confiance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confiance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around confiance (IPA \kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #578 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for confiance, with forms such as "cconfiance", "cnofiance", and "cofniance". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is confiance, spelled C-O-N-F-I-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Sentiment de sécurité vis-à-vis de quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 2Assurance, hardiesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how confiance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’éprouvai pour cet officier une sympathique confiance qui s’accentua, dans la suite de nos rapports. La fréquentation des Danois a toujours provoqué chez moi des sentiments de même nature.
Depuis son départ de Rejkjavik en Islande, le 9 août, on en est sans nouvelles, et malgré ma grande confiance en lui, je suis fort inquiet.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfiance
- cnofiance
- cofniance
- confaince
- conffiance
- confiacne
- confiancce
- confianec
- confiannce
- confinace
- conifance
- connfiance
- ocnfiance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confiance - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).