congruence

/\kɔ̃.ɡʁy.ɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#81,020

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

congruence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de ce qui est adéquat et coïncide avec autre chose. Pronounced \kɔ̃.ɡʁy.ɑ̃s\.

Key facts for congruence
PropertyValue
Headwordcongruence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.ɡʁy.ɑ̃s\
Letters10
Frequency rank#81,020
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for congruence is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.ɡʁy.ɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #81,020 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for congruence in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 congruence, spelled C-O-N-G-R-U-E-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
    Qualité de ce qui est adéquat et coïncide avec autre chose.
  2. 2
    Relation entre deux nombres entiers tels que leur différence est le multiple d'un troisième nombre.
  3. 3
    Relation entre deux éléments x et y d’un anneau ou d’un groupe tels que x-y appartienne, respectivement, à un idéal ou un sous-groupe.
  4. 4
    Relation entre figures planes semblables (homothétiques).
  5. 5
    Ensemble des courbes intégrales associées à un champ de vecteurs.
  6. 6
    Correspondance exacte entre l’expérience et la prise de conscience.
  7. 7
    Qualité d'une articulation ou d'une anastomose dont les deux parties s’adaptent parfaitement.
  8. 8
    Concordance opérationnelle
  9. 9
    Pièce de vêtement très ajustée.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #81,020 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "congruence"?
"congruence" is spelled C-O-N-G-R-U-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.ɡʁy.ɑ̃s\.
What does "congruence" mean?
As a noun, "congruence" means: Qualité de ce qui est adéquat et coïncide avec autre chose.
How do you pronounce "congruence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "congruence" is \kɔ̃.ɡʁy.ɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "congruence" come from?
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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.