confiance

\kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\

/\kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « confiance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

confiance vs confine
78% similar
confiance vs confiant
78% similar
confiance vs confinée
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confiance »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).confiancese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « chance » (#577), « croire » (#579), « bois » (#576). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « confiance » est au #578. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how confiance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Synonyms

Antonyms

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.

cconfiance1cnofiance2cofniance2confaince2conffiance1confiacne2confiancce1confianec2
Edit distance from "confiance"

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.

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. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "confiance", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list